Description
LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness is an antidote to the frenetic pace of this world. It is a clarion call to get up and get out – to look up from our work, our distractions, our routines – and find our way back to the simple pleasure of being in Nature. This is a journal of one woman’s reconnection with Nature, told through heartfelt essays and poems by writer/artist Jennifer Payne, and illustrated by 100 stunning, full-color photographs of the woods and shoreline of Connecticut. Woven in between, you’ll meet kindred spirits like Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, the Dalai Lama and Jon Kabat-Zinn, each expressing their own thoughts on the vast and wonderful lessons to be learned from the natural world. For more about the book and to purchase a signed copy, visit www.3chairspublishing.com. A published poet and writer, artist and spiritual ecologist, Jen Payne is the author of several books including LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness, Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind, Waiting Out the Storm, and Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story. She is the creator/editor of MANIFEST (zine), and writes regularly on her blog: www.randomactsofwriting.net.Her work has been featured in numerous publications including the international anthology Coffee Poems: Reflections on Life with Coffee; the Guilford Poets Guild 20th Anniversary Anthology; Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis, edited by Connecticut’s Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson; and The Perch, a publication by the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health. Jen is the owner is Words by Jen, a graphic design and creative services company founded in 1993, based in Branford, Connecticut. She is a member of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Branford Arts and Cultural Alliance (BACA), and Guilford Art Center.
