About this item
Inside the Flame invites readers to unplug their computers, cell phones, and televisions and plunge back into overlooked nooks and crannies of everyday experience. This jewelbox of an illustrated book offers anecdotes and adventures from the author's wide-ranging personal biography that showcase a life filled with intensity, excitement, and intention. The book's three sections take the reader through sensory journeys in the everyday world, inspiring a sense of exploration in every one of the short, richly-detailed chapters. Inside the Flame inspires readers to revive a sense of play and curiosity into each moment--to explore the radical potential of the tactile world. Inside the Flame illustrates how attentive experience brings the world close, and how the world responds by infusing us with bold colors, memorable textures, and a renewed passion for the examined life.
About the Author
Trained in the art of adventurous living, Christina Waters is a fifth generation Santa Cruz native, raised all over the world (thanks to an Air Force dad) , with an academic background and real world experience in journalism, painting, wine-tasting, music, woodworking, hang gliding, trail running, reiki, and organic gardening. Born in Santa Cruz, California, she grew up in France, Germany, Virginia, and California. Instilled with a lifelong passion for travel, she lived in the redwoods before attending graduate school at University of California in Davis. After a brief stay in San Francisco working at SF State, she moved back to her birthplace, Santa Cruz, CA, to finish her dissertation in Jean-Paul Sartre's theory of the imagination. With the PhD completed, she began teaching at UCSC, including Environmental Ethics, Writing for Visual Artists, and a Film course on Digital Dystopias. An accomplished musician, she performs with the UCSC Concert Choir and regularly exhibits her expressionist oil portraits in local galleries. She currently teaches and writes in Santa Cruz. In her spare time she haunts the opera houses of the world.
