Deeply Grateful & Entirely Unsatisfied: A Book for Anyone Wondering if Life Is Giving You Magical Gifts or Just Messing with You

By Amanda Happé

What does it mean to be vulnerable and defiant at the same time? In Deeply Grateful and Entirely Unsatisfied, author and artist Amanda Happé poses this question with disarming honesty and humor. Her colorful marker drawings and quirky hand-lettered sentiments offer an idiosyncratic take on life's challenges, reminding the reader that "you are the sign you've been waiting for." Brimming with compassion, empathy, and a healthy dose of sarcasm, Deeply Grateful and Entirely Unsatisfied is, in Happé's own words, "so good it's odd."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Mar 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781452161709

Amanda Happé

Amanda Happé is an artist, author, illustrator, and designer based in Toronto, Canada.

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INTRODUCTION

It has been a hard and wonderful few years, as it likely has been for you too.

I don’t have much business writing you a book, so let’s set expectations at an appropriate level. Unless, of course, you prefer one-sided conversations with someone as jumbled up as anybody else—then, settle in.

By day I’m a problem solver—all sorts of problems for all types of organizations that find themselves faced with some of the biggies: What have we become? Who should we be? How can we matter more? I set about figuring that out. I’ve got methods and tools. I’ve gotten pretty good at bringing people to their answers, painting a picture of how things could and should be, and giving them the confidence that this picture is true and attainable. Hey, I can even help draw you a map of how to get there!

All the while that I’ve been getting better at that, on an inverse trajectory, my own biggies have become unresolvable. My mountain of questions now generously overshadows my small lump of beliefs. Unknowns abound. When I try to figure out where I’m headed, a mental picture forms of