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Gracious Living in a New World: Finding Joy in Changing Times
Gracious Living in a New World Finding Joy in Changing Times Author:Alexandra Stoddard Faced with a new world marked by fast-paced, pressured, and often hectic lifestyles, Alexandra Stoddard shows how we can keep calm and find great joy in our lives. She relishes her escapes with her husband to their cottage in Stonington Village, Connecticut, where she revitalizes her mind and spirit with the soothing, simple pleasures of c... more »ommunity life and then, refreshed, carries its charm and peace back into daily pursuits.
In Gracious Living in a New World, Stoddard shows us with clarity and insight how to find our own community and how to transcend the increasing depersonalization of our technology-based world by expressing the tenets of gracious living every day.
In her evocation of the smell of brownies baking, the look of a brightly colored handful of pansies, or the feel of freshly washed linen, Stoddard delightfully awakens our senses to the "comfort of simpliciity" and urges us to slow down and make room for these little pleasures amid the frantic rush of daily schedules.