This visually stunning, thought-provoking book is about looking around with awareness, noticing life's quiet details and knowing that the honesty of time changes everything from a human face, a family home, or a fragile sampler book of antique lace. It is about the agelessness of integrity; appreciating the imperfect; beauty and our involvement in creating it; acceptance; ancient crafts and craftsmanship; and letting everything age with grace. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author in 27 countries, it affirms that we are more alike than we sometimes admit we all have a desire for warmth and love and that there is dignity in simple things.