Book details

  • Genre:poetry
  • Sub-genre:Subjects & Themes / Nature
  • Language:English
  • Pages:120
  • eBook ISBN:9798317802325
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317802318

What the Horizon Can Hold

By Chiemi

Overview

"What the Horizon Can Hold" is comprised of five collections: What the Horizon Can Hold, Feeling That Green, Blessed to Engage, and Beyond the Green. They are lyrics with art that hopefully inspire participation and recognition of the beauty around us in this life that we share. When we look out to where the sea meets the sky, what lies beyond? Are the tones and colors along the edges unreachable? If we pause, sit, and appreciate what has gone unnoticed, maybe we will be able to reach out, engage, and encourage the little sparks of light that can help you see more clearly.
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Description

When we look out to where the sea meets the sky, what lies beyond? Are the tones and colors along the edges unreachable? If we pause, sit, and appreciate what has gone unnoticed, maybe we will be able to reach out, engage, and encourage the little sparks of light that can help you see more clearly. Our imagination can bring us farther than you know, to kaona and living a pono life. In Hawaiian, 'kaona' refers to the hidden layers of meaning, while being 'pono' refers to doing everything you can to stay in balance. Think beyond the green—according to Hawaiian wisdom, ho'omanawanui can be the active patience that nourishes and takes us to the right time or ika manawa kūponu "What the Horizon Can Hold" is comprised of five collections: What the Horizon Can Hold, Feeling That Green, Blessed to Engage, and Beyond the Green. They are lyrics with art that hopefully inspire participation and recognition of the beauty around us in this life that we share. All net proceeds are directed to the Asian Women for Health (AWFH), a non-profit organization building stronger, healthier communities and mobilizing Asian women and their loved ones who are facing health care disparities by providing services that act as a vital bridge between them and policy makers. By training community health workers to provide culturally sensitive care, expanding health care coverage to underrepresented populations, and helping researchers incorporate Asian women into medical studies, AWFH is an essential resource in Massachusetts and New England. For more information visit https://www.asianwomenforhealth.org
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About The Author

Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner was born in Hawaii and lives with her family in Massachusetts. 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. Ingrid also released a CD "Living on 2 Coasts" in 2005. The title track was the theme song for the Asian American Lawyers' Legal Line Boston Neighborhood Network TV show, for which she was also a host. Ingrid Chiemi has performed professionally in many small venues, penned Chiemi's Corner, a music/events column in The Somerville News, and hosted the Somerville News' Music/Poetry Series. When the pandemic hit and she started working remotely for the first time, she integrated the music into her day with the commute time she was saving. She also started recording in her attic and posting songs with art and photos. which ultimately became books, "Karma Bank to Following By Listening," "Odd Simple Beauty," "World As Refuge" and "Something in That Space," available on Amazon, Newtonville Books & Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop & benefit the Asian Community Development Corp., Asian Women For Health, the Coalition for Anti-Racism and Equity (ethnic studies in K-12 education) and the Korematsu Institute. She has been profiled in The Boston Globe (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/06/metro/its-how-i-make-sense-world-newton-attorney-creates-book-her-song-writing/) as well as many local publications - see https://figcitynews.com/2023/09/world-as-refuge-celebrating-resilience-diversity/& https://figcitynews.com/2024/06/poetry-party-at-newtonville-books-aug-4/. She hopes that folks find beauty and joy in her work and believes that music should be a regular part of everyday life.
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