Let Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life.With Alice as a guide, explore the steps and ways to live a conscious life and focus on the goodness of the world around us. Alice's beautiful and captivating writing is an act of mindfulness in itself, and she shares her favourite moments in life, encouraging us to ponder our own. Alice also inspires the reader to be attentive to the here and now and embrace moments as they arise.A beautiful and enchanting book by a bestselling and celebrated author.

Introduction Golden Moments 9
Part 1 AWARENESS
Out of Our Minds page 15
Meeting the Morning 21
Repairs and Maintenance 29
Afternoon Tea 35
An Ordinary Day 39
Finding My Feet 45
The Wonder of Wood 51
Take Good Care of Me 56
Part 2 ROOTS
Beauty from Boredom 67
The Gap 73
The Well 77
The Fort Field 82
The Sacred Earth 90
Part 3 SPECIAL MOMENTS IN THE GARDEN
Dancing with the Day 101
Red and Yellow 104
Black Gold 107
Blue Brilliance 112

Fresh Flowers 115
Waiting 124
The Plantsman 129
An Old Tree 133
Part 4 SMALL KINDNESSES
The Black Bubble 143
Beautiful Mind 147
Battered Chalice 152
Never Suppress a Good Impulse 156
Let It Be 161
A Passing Kindness 165
Part 5 THEN AND NOW
The Agony and the Ecstasy 172
A Time to Write 178
From There to Here 182
Refeathering the Nest 189
It Takes So Long to Say Goodbye 193
Both Sides Now 197