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Odd Simple Beauty

By Chiemi
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Odd Simple Beauty reflects on the transition from pandemic isolation to renewed connection and hope. Through thoughtful exploration, it honours the lingering shadows of quarantine while celebrating the tentative return to community and the redefinition of home as a sanctuary for growth.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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We're still emerging from the darkness of quarantine and isolation. Hopefully, we can move into the light without forgetting the parts of the experience of darkness that make it now so much brighter. We also seek the light and are sometimes blinded by it. Stunned.

But when you close your eyes, you can still feel the warmth, see the golden tint behind your lids—your own space in the brightness. And we're coming back, despite lingering vestiges of the pandemic. Home has changed shape, but at the very least, it can be a safe place to regenerate and grow. It's our world to reclaim, and there's joy in the tentative new freedom to mingle with others—something to embrace with gratitude, that we want to keep.

All proceeds are directed to Asian Women for Health (AWFH), a community-based non-profit organisation advancing Asian women's health and wellbeing through education, advocacy, and support. The AWFH is a diverse group working together across differences in age, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, socio-economic and educational levels, to address individual, community-wide, and systemic barriers that affect Asian women and their loved ones. For more information, go to https://www.asianwomenforhealth.org.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781667860220

Publisher: BookBaby

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: BookBaby

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 124

About the Author

Chiemi was born in Hawaii and lives with her family in Massachusetts. She is a singer-songwriter among other things, dedicated to expanding horizons and promoting diversity, empathy & connectivity. She has been writing songs for years, and you can access recordings of her current and new songs online.

Her first publicly performed song was "Steps to Find" in 1988, when she conducted her high school class in a four-part harmony rendition of it at graduation. In college, she was graced with singing the part of the female angel in Haydn's "The Heavens Are Telling" with the University Chorale at the Vatican.
While in graduate school, she sang in an acapella group called "The Wandr'ng Mistrials. Chiemi also released a CD "Living on 2 Coasts" in 2005. "Odd Simple Beauty" is her second book. For more information about Chiemi, go to www.ChiemiMusic.com.

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