Everyday Matters Paperback – Illustrated, January 9, 2007

This is an amazing, creative book. I am enjoying it and yes, it does inspire you to draw more and really look at everything around you with fresh eyes.

I found it to be an enjoyable and thought provoking read. Maybe you need help with depth, shading or perspective in your drawings...this book may help you with gaining a NEW perspective. I enjoyed his artwork and what he shared with his readers. Thank you. Looking forward to reading & seeing other works by this author/artist. Thank you.

First time I read "Everyday matters", thought "i know it, but I want to learn something useful to start journaling myself everyday". It may not sound as a great goal in life, but actually it was my thinking that time. Once I began to read it... I felt a bit ashamed, I am complete, at least in the outside, but life sometimes turns up everything, and you must change or get stuck in pain, hate, self pity, you name it. It requires a strong will to live beyond that ominous adversities, and get the right meaning of all these matters. I should say to Danny Gregory: "I am very proud of you,as a fellow human being", and to all future readers, well, you will find a reminder of how fragile our comfortable existence is, and how much effort it takes to overcome a personal loss, but overall you'll find a beautiful and true tale of reencounter with yourself and your significant others, in love and courage to find new ways to live a good, exciting and meaningful life. Trough the healing power of love, drawing is a tool of great use to find those ways. After all, an artists search around to see beyond conventions and find new paths to understand the world and themselves. Journaling, drawing, living an illustrated life, that is in few words what "Everyday matters" is to me. Thanks again Mr. Gregory!

Loved reading through this book and looking at the wonderful illustrations! Interesting stories and tidbits, and it really gave me some good ideas for simply drawing the things around me.

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Wonderful book for anyone that likes to make art, or thinks they might like to make art.

If you are interested in developing a love for everyday journaling, this book will help you get on track. Danny's way of writing and illustrating is profound from his heart.

I was not expecting anything when I started this book...frankly, I'm not sure I remember ordering it. In any event, the parallels between this graphic memoir and my own life make this book read more like an answered prayer than merely another memoir.I take that last part back. It's not just that the author's experiences mirror my own life that makes this book notable. Rather, it's that Gregory manages to capture his own HUMANITY...without resorting to irony or the manufactured self-deprecation that seems to plague the modern memoir that makes this book so notable. I mean, finally!, someone has managed to write an HONEST memoir, one that does not require an attorney's Release of the Facts as a prologue."Everyday Matters" reads like a private journal, without the pretention that comes when the author knows other folks'll be reading it. Gregory's sketches are likewise uninhibited and imperfect; together, the text and illustrations create a personal, intimate environment for the reader that is inviting and judgment-free; none of the "You shouldn't have looked (though I knew you would, so I gave you my best side)" business that is the meta-text of so many memoirs, but instead offers a reassuring, "Well, that's me, hair and all...what do you think?"A thoughtful, generous gift from Gregory to his readers.