If you've encountered Danny Gregory's work before but haven't met him in this book yet, this is his pinnacle for me. If you haven't yet encountered Danny, start here.

Danny's visual journals - watercolor images and handwritten text - carry an emotional weight that mere words don't. And this book, written as he grieved the sudden death of his wife, will make you misty and show you a way forward in dark times.

Danny shows me how the combination of imagery and text can combine to be greater than the whole. His two surveys of this creative approach , using a variety of authors, [b:An Illustrated Life|8895439|An Illustrated Life|Danny Gregory|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348773982s/8895439.jpg|3288384] and [b:An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration from the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers|17989456|An Illustrated Journey Inspiration from the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers|Danny Gregory|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1369820447s/17989456.jpg|21622382], are well done and broad summaries.

This book in particular is powerfully emotive.