How To Live At The Beach
How To Live At The Beach
Sandy Gingras
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What is it about the beach that makes it so alluring? Why is it the place we run away to when we can, dream about when we can't, and long for when we are removed from it? Perhaps it's all about simplicity, serenity, and appreciation. Like a treasure in the sand, How to Live at the Beach lets us discover — and rediscover — that allure.
How to Live at the Beach is a little book with big impact. A gift book that is a true gift to enjoy and ponder, it reminds us of the important things we often forget. And, like the beach itself, it offers us renewal.
With each turn of the page, we are charmed by illustrations that take our memories back to when we walked, played, and lazed on the sandy shore. The enchanting watercolors have a subtle power to transport even the souls of those who never set foot on a beach to whatever seashore they desire. And as in her first book, How to Live on an Island, Sandy Gingras chooses her words to create a prose-poem.
Like a day at the beach, when we read this book we are invigorated and find that the complexities that surround us are not so difficult or even important. With each reading, the beach metaphor awakens us: How we might live our lives, how we can pace ourselves, how we can appreciate, how we can love.
Like the perfect seashell, Sandy Gingras leaves the underlying meaning for the reader to find. And just like combing the beach, it is a pleasure to explore.
Pages: 64
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Dimensions: 6.25” x 6.25” x 0.5"
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''Captures the pure simplicity of seaside living. This gift book couples lively illustrations with thoughtful musings for readers who understand the beach is more than just a place for sun and sand. Like the ocean itself, this book nourishes the mind, heart, and soul.'' — Coastal Living magazine
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''Sandy Gingras evokes how good things can be when you and your environment are in happy agreement.'' — Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winner for poetry, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
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"It’s a little book with big impact, and like the perfect seashell, is pure buried treasure. ...Her book, like the beach, offers us a chance for renewal." —The Beachcomber
Excerpt
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"Simplicity is an unbuttoning of what we’ve learned to wear as a self — a looser fit, a softer fabric. It’s like a step we’ve forgotten how to dance, a native language we’ve forgotten how to speak in a rushy complex world. We know that simplicity is within us and within our grasp."
"We want to elongate the days, distill the memories, make them last. At the same time, we know that the beauty is in the evanescence ..."
"Every wave comes in, then retreats. Every day promises, then turns its back and slips away. Every joy has a little tease in it, a give and a take, and leaves a wake of longing."
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From the Back Cover:
"For those of us so busy living that we forget how to live — a little manual of beachiness to nudge us back toward simplicity."
