A FIELD GUIDE TO NOW: LIFE IN THE PRESENT TENSE

Book ID/图书代码： 05170011B51441

English Summary/英文概要： What if you could look for the present moment in a field guide, the way you might look up the name of a tree out your window?

For as long as you can remember, the tree has just been a tree, but in looking it up, it becomes something more: a Sassafras maybe, or a Tulip Maple, and suddenly you can feel the way your attention towards it shifts. You recognize the way its pollen gathers fine and yellow in the weft of your bedroom screen in May, or the way its shade freckles the dying grass at the end of summer. In the act of naming it, in discovering its traits and marks, the tree becomes something more to you.

What if you could do this for the moments that fill your life? That is what this book is about. The illustrated essays and prose explore the fabric of the present tense. With this book, talented blogger and artist Christina Rosalie combines narrative with original illustrations and field notes that spark inspiration. Within these pages she leads readers to rediscover how the small, mundane aspects of daily life can—through a shift in focus—become a springboard for the profound.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果你能够从一本野外指南中获取当下时刻？就如同你查阅窗外某棵树的名字一样？

自你有记忆以来，一棵树可能就只是一棵树而已，但是一旦当你去寻找与它相关的信息，从此它的形象便丰满了起来：它或许是一棵黄樟，又或者是一棵郁金香枫，突然间你仿佛可以清晰地感觉到自己对它的感官和以前不一样了。你仿佛意识到时值五月时，它的花粉落在了你房间窗户的纬纱之上，又仿佛在夏末，它的绿荫无精打采的耷拉着。在寻找它的名字的过程中，在发现它的种种特质的过程中，这棵树突然间对于你变得意义非凡起来。你有没有设想过，如果你用同样的方式对待你生命中的一个个时刻，又会产生怎样的结果呢？这便是本书所想要传达的主旨。这本充满着插图的小书和其中的一篇篇优美篇章正是探索着究竟是什么构成了我们生活的当下。才情满溢的博主及艺术家克里斯提那•罗莎莉将叙述与原创插图相结合，配之以野外笔记，通过这本小书来激发出我们每个人的灵感所在。在本书的字里行间，她引领读者们去重新发现：即使是再细微再尘世的日常生活种种，也可以通过我们关注点的转变，变成一个通往更深层次地域的桥梁。（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 克里斯提那•罗莎莉是一名作家、混音音效师及创造顾问，其获奖作品已在被刊登在网络上并投入刊印。她的博客“我的地形学“曾获得“最佳创造性博客”称号，并拥有一批忠实的粉丝，且人数不断增加中。作者现与家人居住在佛蒙特。更多作者信息，请访问mytopography.com。

Christina Rosalie is a writer, mixed media artist, and creative consultant whose award winning work and been featured in print and online. Her blog, My Topography, a Best of Blogs “Best Creative Blog” winner, has a loyal and expanding audience. She lives with her family in Vermont. Visit her at mytopography.com.

Format:电子手稿

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