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Fragrance of Remembering
Fragrance Of Remembering, Celebrating Mom
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Mom had her own brand of intuition and wisdom. Her biggest gift was loving all four of her children absolutely equally, absolutely unconditionally, and leaving us with the ability to do the same. To find joy in the smallest things. To sing. To explore. To welcome people into our lives without judgment, without exception.
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This book is Zia's memoir of that life, a secular home where everyone belonged, a mother who never once missed a birthday call in decades, and a goodbye that looked nothing like a funeral. Instead of mourning, the family celebrated: six prayers from six different faiths, her favorite songs sung aloud, her ashes returned to the Arabian Sea she loved, and a hymn: Abide With Me, carried out on the water behind her.
This book is Zia's way of holding onto that. And in sharing it, she hopes it offers the same comfort to anyone who's lost someone they loved, especially those who lost someone, or under circumstances as difficult as the ones so many faced during Covid.
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Book of Poems & Songs
Poems scribbled in the margins of childhood, paintings made with the kind of freedom only a child has, gathered quietly over the years by the one person who saw the artist in Zia before anyone else did, her mother.
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It isn't polished. It isn't meant to be. It's proof that the poet, the writer, the person who still stops the car on a highway just to look at a waterfall, was always there, noticed, kept, and loved into being by a mother who believed every scrap of it was worth saving.
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A gift from Mom, now shared with everyone else.
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