<p class=ql-align-justify><em>From a Studio in Oakland California </em>is a collection of 108 soulful poems and essays on what it means to be human. To love to lose to hope to begin again to wonder and to evolve.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Written during a season of personal reckoning and return these pieces are meant to read like offerings left for the reader to pick up and find resonance where needed.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Part self-help part poetic observation this book is designed to meet readers at the crossroads of past and future--where grief growth healing and expansion converge.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>It is a work of shared wisdom supportive permission and soul-level reminders to the reader: of their wholeness their capacity and their right to take up space in this world.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>This book is for anyone standing in the middle of their own becoming. More than anything it is meant as a love letter to whoever may find their way through its pages.</p>