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\n\tPraise for Ash and Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n “…beautiful and hard and honest and needed.”<\/p>\n “…reading this feels like being loved with ferocity and tenderness.”<\/p>\n“Is it possible for a piece of writing to be achingly painful and simultaneously luscious? A Story to Heal and Feel Grief Together<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen 30-year-old Pema, one of New York City’s newest residents, ran to the corner to see ABOUT PEMA<\/strong><\/p>\n Pema Rocker is a writer and community media organizer. She has created, curated and edited magazines for LGBTQIA\/Queer and spiritual communities, created story circles for groups who want to connect on a deeper level, and helped people find their ways through grief and transition that crops up in the stories they write, from business media to teaching curricula to songwriting to memoir. Pema lives in Portland, Oregon. This is her first book, but not her first rodeo.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBuy Ash and Spirit on Amazon\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Pema Rocker’s poetic prose is balm to the soul of those carrying unhealed wounds. In Ash and Spirit she advises you to acknowledge grief and listen for spirit, writing,\u00a0 ‘It’s all here for us,’ and she’s right: It’s all here for you in this haunting, healing book.” -Suzanne Giesmann, author of Messages of Hope and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI think I just read the answer.”\n\t
\n“how they put out fires in big cities,” she had no way to know she and the people stopped in
\nthe street around her were witnessing the start of a national attack, or that the sight would
\nretrigger the painful trauma of her brother’s sudden death when they were teenagers.
\nNeither did she know it would begin an emotional and spiritual journey that tested and
\ntranscended physical bounds.\nAsh and Spirit travels a story of loss as a teenager, and the search to resolve decades of grief. A
\nnarrative collage constructed of interviews, messaging chats, journal entries, pictures, and
\npersonal stories that take place over thirty years, Ash and Spirit, represents the dislocated
\nnature of memory and trauma recall. Vivid and detailed moments in time stitch together to tell
\na whole story of many losses into one for the sake of healing individual and collective grief.\nTold from the tender center of both personal loss and collective, this book will be valuable for
\nanyone experiencing loss or grief, for the first time or still.<\/b>\n\t\t\t\t![\"pema\"](\"https:\/\/pemarocker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pema.jpeg\" "\\"pema\\"")
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