CBRBingo: Self-help This book has a glorious cover that is well-matched to the contents. Julia Baird – historian, journalist, TV presenter – blends personal experience, scientific research, philosophy and theology to outline her argument that instead of asking how we stay happy we should ask “how do we survive, stay alive or even bloom when the world goes dark, when we are, for instance, overwhelmed by illness or heartbreak, loss or pain?”. Beginning with a discussion of literal phosphoresence – light released by natural substances […]
“Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
Phosphoresence: On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark by Julia Baird