Wonder is a Lovely Place to Be

Product Description

• Discover that no moment is mundane
• 365 days of wit, wisdom, and imagination
• We are here so briefly, see clearly and bring your best self

Wonder is a Lovely Place to Be gathers 365 essays, poems, and sketches from Brian Doyle, revealing his keen eye for grace and an imagination shaped by his Catholic faith. Drawing from both beloved and previously unpublished works, this collection invites readers to notice holiness woven through ordinary, everyday moments. In Wonder is a Lovely Place to Be, you’ll encounter a keen eye for detail - the slap of flip-flops on pavement, a kindergartener released to the playground with arms flung open and untied shoes, a no-look pass in a neighborhood pickup basketball game - Doyle shapes small moments into stories and aims them straight at the human heart. His writing in Wonder is a Lovely Place to Be is a summons to live with wide eyes and open hearts in a fragile world: “Do not tire, do not despair, … be relentless, be merry, …be alert, be attentive - for there is holiness all around us like an ocean.”

Doyle wrote everywhere, on envelopes, inside book jackets, on the backs of menus. Some of these fragments became essays published around the tworld; many others remain scattered across his desk like driftwood from a life immersed in language. Now, in Wonder is a Lovely Place to Be, his wife Mary Miller Doyle, gathers his writing, including never-before-seen-stories, poems, sketches, and even cartoons, into a daily collection that invites readers into his sacred imagination all year long.

Dimensions & Specifications

• Wonder is a Lovely Place to Be
• By Brian Doyle, edited by his wife Mary Miller Doyle
• Hardover
• 288 pages
• Measures 6”W x 9”H

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