Just Outside Your Window: Finding Insights, Hope and Joy

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We are living in challenging times with so many unknowns. Worry and stress can feel overwhelming at times. Feeling untethered makes us see the day ahead as an effort, and we miss the many opportunities to see the joy and miracles that happen each and every day. Just Outside Your Window is filled with beautiful photographs and words of inspiring wisdom . . . carefully chosen by the authors to help move you from struggle to strength, from feeling lost to finding joy. Page after page in this heartfelt book you'll find the magic in the ordinary that will uplift your spirit and brighten your day. We hope it will illumine your path and help you rediscover the strength and courage that is already inside you.

Donna remembered that she was is a writer just after the loss of her beloved grandfather. She recalls the cursor light on her first personal computer blinking, as if calling her. Her fingers moved effortlessly as she composed a poem in his honor. The writer had returned. Since then, Donna has lived in many places--Maine, San Francisco, North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains ( her birthplace), and most recently, Illinois. Her professional life took many shapes, but with the same intent... .to help people find what brings them joy in work, nature, and relationships. She founded Donna's Big Red Chair in 2010 and works as a life coach. In 1959, Charlotte's engineer father had a basement dark room where he'd develop the black and white photos he'd taken. When she was eleven, he helped her develop some of her own photographs, taken with her Brownie camera. The seed was planted. But it wasn't until 2004, after years of education and working in a variety of fields - from teaching to public health research -- that Charlotte realized she is a photographer, not just someone who takes pictures. She draws inspiration from Imogen Cunningham, who said My favorite photograph is the one I'll take tomorrow. Charlotte's studio is called Eye's Breath Photographic Art. See more of her photographs at www.eyesbreathphotoart.online