"A stunning compilation of images and words that collaborate in entraining the reader not only into the high-resolution universes and challenges that Jo's camera and commentary so magnificently capture and celebrate, but even more importantly, into our own musings on the precarity and preciousness of life and its endless wonders and challenges. It reminds us in every momen--wherever we find ourselves, no matter how difficult the circumstances--not to miss what is before us and all around us. This book is a moving and deeply illuminating oeuvre; a masterpiece in a singular genre of its own." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, founder of Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and author of Wherever You Go, There You Are "The writing and photography that emerged from Jo Confino's one hundred days of quiet reflection carry a lived-in clarity--the sensitivity of someone who has sat with both collapse and renewal and was able to touch what his teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, calls the 'ultimate dimension.' These pages open a subtle threshold into a deeper way of seeing. To read these pages and linger with these images is to be drawn into a meditation." --Chris Levine, artist and photographer of the Lightness of Being portrait of Queen Elizabeth II "Through the skillful and mindful lens of his camera, Jo Confino reveals astonishing miniature worlds in Mexico's desert-like Oaxacan valley, which is teeming with universal dramas of life and death. His exquisite photography is wrapped in irresistible storytelling of his search for a deeper path through globally disrupted times.

In so doing, Confino invites every one of us to recognize the extraordinary fractal emotional landscapes that are hidden in our own everyday experience. The result is heart-stoppingly beautiful." --Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics "A genre-defying travelogue that seamlessly blends Zen wisdom with awe-inspiring photography to capture a candid process of deepening self-awareness and enlightenment at a time when the world went dark. Jo Confino's latest book beautifully embodies the Buddhist precept that when something big gets in the way (such as a global pandemic), there is no way around it--it is itself the way." --Britt Wray, PhD, author of Generation Dread and director of CIRCLE, a research and action initiative focused on Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership, and emotional well- being in the Stanford University School of Medicine "In this exquisite, extraordinary book, Jo Confino combines hauntingly beautiful images of the very small and his own deeply felt experience of the desert to give us insights onto the largest questions of life. A tour de force ." --Rebecca M. Henderson, author of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire.