Eleanor Whitfield

Books

The Attentive Life: a short book of twelve essays on attention, craft and living deliberately.

The Attentive Life

A short book of twelve essays on attention, craft and living deliberately. It begins with a kettle, moves through craft, and ends with a quiet argument about enough.

The Attentive Life. Cover design by Themes by Kyle for this demo.

Inside

  1. The kettle and the screen
  2. What attention costs
  3. A practice of returning
  4. Fewer, better things
  5. Keep, finish, release
  6. The underside of the drawer
  7. Starting badly
  8. The weekly review
  9. Silence as infrastructure
  10. Walking
  11. The ethics of enough
  12. What the work is for

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