Thrive Where You're Planted: A Guided Journal to Help You Get Outside, Touch Grass, and Connect with the Natural Wonders in Your Neighborhood

By David Egan

Find peace and appreciate the wonder of the natural world with this meditative guided journal for suburban and urban dwellers.

Everyone knows that being in nature can help you feel less anxious, more centered, and at peace. The sound of a waterfall, a swaying green canopy, a distant horizon--all of these things slow your heart rate, open your lungs, and calm your mind. But what if--like most North Americans--you live in a suburb or a city and can't go into the great outdoors every day?

Organized by month, this guided journal encourages you to center yourself in the cycle of the seasons through:
Nature-inspired meditation exercisesOutdoor activities and craftsFlora and fauna trackersWeather chartsUrban foraging tips

Naturalist Andrea Debbink will show you that nature is all around you, even in the densest metropolis and will teach you how to find wildness in a city sparrow, beauty in a roadside dandelion, and stillness on a park bench.

This hardcover journal is perfect for throwing in a backpack and taking to the park, featuring a rounded spine for easy writing, a fabric bookmark to keep your place, and a full-color illustrated design that changes with the seasons.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683693434
• ISBN13: 9781683693437
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Amazing

One of, if not, the best book i've read. A huge fan of poker and Stu Ungar. I enjoyed every minute of this book, cover to cover. To go insdie the life of Stu Ungar from his worst times to his best times only made me want to learn more and turn more pages but it gave a greater perspective on the poker world back in the 80's. Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson did an amazing job on this book and anyone who is a poker fan and knows...

Excellent!

This is a tough writing assignment. Two great writers, Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson, are more than up to the task, and solve it brilliantly in a chronological, well-researched, smooth-reading biography of the famous gambler. Most of the things that can go right or wrong in a life happened to Ungar. This book captures the sights and sounds his era in an entertaining fashion, and is likely the best glimpse we will ever have...

The Fire that Drives Also Destroys.

I recall that Jim Mcmanus, in his book on the World Series of Poker, mentioned that Stu Ungar was someone with a life truly in need of exploring, so I was pleased to find out about the existence of this book. I ordered it the minute it was released. I could not be more pleased with the purchase. Its pages flow like frames in a motion picture. I could not put the biography down. This is a tribute both to the professional...

An Amazing Tale of a Strange Life

It seems to be that a person that is the best in the world at one thing often has to pay for that skill by having gross failures in other areas. And that is certainly the case of Stuey Ungar. At card games like gin rummy and poker he was the best of the best. Stuey was the Babe Ruth of high stakes poker. During his life he won perhaps $30,000,000, no one knows for sure. Yet at the same time he had more than his share of...

Fascinating close-up portrait of a brilliant, damaged card player

Stu Ungar's legend transcends poker: he won the world championship three times (the third more than a decade and a half after the second and when he was regarded as a has-been or curiosity) and was supposedly an even BETTER gin player. He had a genius for games that was almost unfathomable. Then, just a year and a half after his greatest triumph, he was dead. Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson have big-league credentials as researchers...