Through essays and stories on the poetry and science of living, Mud and Dreams is an argument for the goodness of people, the beauty all around us and our reasons for hope. It calls us to embrace all the noise and confusion of our lives, everything that is unjust and unfair, and find the meaning, gratefulness and cause for celebration. Intimate. Sublime. Mud and Dreams is about falling more deeply in love with life. A work of "literary self-help" or "motivational poetics", Mud and Dreams is informed by the science of positive psychology but, suckled on poetry. It is an invitation to embrace.