The Art of Noticing: The Life-changing Power of Paying Attention and Keeping a Journal

The Art of Noticing: The Life-changing Power of Paying Attention and Keeping a Journal

There’s transformative power in paying attention.Discover your unsuspected gifts – overcome blocks to creativity – get past fears that beset you and character quirks that trip you up. In The Art of Noticing , the author invites readers to join her on a creative journey, one that’s easy to bypass in the clamor of everyday life. There’s insight on every page, and whimsical illustrations to embellish the text.Whether you’ve kept a journal for forty years – as the author has – or if the closest thing is your grocery list, there are ways to notice and hold on to the good things that pass by, unnoticed, every day.Come alongside author Mary Coons as she helps the reader see what’s under their nose and embrace the messages hidden inside. Mary Coons is the author/illustrator of four books and the illustrator of another two dozen. She has taught illustration and creative writing for three Ohio universities and in hundreds of schools. In her spare time, she's drawn nearly five hundred homes, farms and businesses for a wide range of satisfied clients. She has two grown sons, and lives in Indianapolis with her husband and their two comic dogs. You can see her work-and short films about it-at: MaryCoonsDesigns.com