Introducing “A Field Guide To Now” from Edward Shepard on Vimeo.
It’s a crazy, amazing, surreal thing: to hold your first book in your hands, the book you’ve spent months writing, and say simply, this is a book about ______________.
In this case that fill-in-the blank can be filled with so many things: wonder, heartache, sweetness, jammy little-boy hands, longing, painting, making messes, spilling open, laughter, learning to fly, navigating uncertainty, nurturing a creative practice, growing big within small moments, finding solace, baking bread, living intentionally, and praising the simple utter glory of each singular day.
But simply, truly, I wrote this book you.
Yes you.
It’s for…
Anyone who is hungry to be an apprentice to their own abundant life.
Creative, adventurous souls who know the simultaneous tug of wanderlust, and the desire to put down roots and claim a place as home.
Anyone with the desire to discover or reclaim your creative pulse — amidst the overwhelm and distractions and responsibilities in their daily life.
Mamas (and dads) who want to re-locate themselves beyond the boundaries of perpetual giving and neediness and messes and wonderment that raising young children demand.
Anyone with a dream of a creative project or bold undertaking (this book is proof: it’s possible.)
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And as we head into the holiday season that is inevitably filled with busyness and rushing about, family and friends, days filled to the brim with making and doing, I hope this book can be a gift for you: of rest and wonder, and also a guide book of sorts, for being in the small ordinary moments, documenting them, and discovering yourself through them anew.
Great little video!! I adore this book and will re-read it during the holidays. So thankful for your bravery in writing this book!! xoxo
I mentioned that I had finished your book the other day on my blog and my friend Chel was extremely excited to hear about it. She’s a bead maker and art journaler and I knew she would love it—she’s all about gratitude and living life in the moment.
I loved the book too, took about a month to savor it fully and will pick it up again over time to come back to chapters. I think everyone would agree: Write More Books! :)
Your book has been sunshine flooding through, into the window of my soul and allowing it to fly. Almost every chapter resonates with me in some way, I nod as I read, I allow the words to settle into my heart and take a deep, cleansing breath. I am so pleased to have learned about it on a fellow artist’s blog. I ran out and purchased it within the same hour I heard about it. I knew it was a book I had to hold in my hands and I am so grateful for your bringing it to life.
In short, you wrote it for me. :)
I’m devouring it right now, and lighting up with ideas and little sparks of hope that this winter won’t be the creative wasteland of last winter or so many before. It is absolutely a gift. <3
love this – so nice to hear/see you talking about your book. am going to add it to my wish list. it sounds like something i would love and learn from…i already know the love and care it was written with, that was so evident as we glimpsed the process from your blog. congratulations for the dream becoming reality! xx