The Guide to Becoming Alive

Perched above Los Angeles, Flamingo Estate is a lush sanctuary celebrating nature, pleasure, and healing. In Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive, founder Richard Christiansen shares fifteen pleasure principles inspired by nature’s wisdom. Through stories, rituals, and stunning imagery, Christiansen invites readers to reconnect with the natural world—flirting like orchids, embracing winters like plum trees, and courting their shadows like ferns. This inspiring guide is a call to reject dullness and fully savor the radical joys of life rooted in nature.