This book was a collaboration between I-O co-founders, Shay and Yakusan, to raise funds for her reentry.
At the time of publication, Shay was Shane Pema Tenzin Marcantel. He wrote this horticulture journal in 2012-2013 as part of a vocational curriculum offered at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center. Around this same time, he began practicing Tibetan Buddhism. Both paths of study nourished his transformation, offering them some liberation from the dehumanizing norms and narratives of the carceral system. Pema became a formal student in the Nyingma tradition, an ordained chaplain and a meditation teacher - all while still incarcerated.
These pages burst with care and growth. They hold the joy and heartache of Pema’s lived experience. This is a spiritual evolution of bringing down walls –physical walls and walls in the mind.
To outside and inside readers alike, these pages are an invitation to heal and be with what’s alive and blooming right now, right here.
Proceeds will support I-O’s operating costs.
This book was a collaboration between I-O co-founders, Shay and Yakusan, to raise funds for her reentry.
At the time of publication, Shay was Shane Pema Tenzin Marcantel. He wrote this horticulture journal in 2012-2013 as part of a vocational curriculum offered at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center. Around this same time, he began practicing Tibetan Buddhism. Both paths of study nourished his transformation, offering them some liberation from the dehumanizing norms and narratives of the carceral system. Pema became a formal student in the Nyingma tradition, an ordained chaplain and a meditation teacher - all while still incarcerated.
These pages burst with care and growth. They hold the joy and heartache of Pema’s lived experience. This is a spiritual evolution of bringing down walls –physical walls and walls in the mind.
To outside and inside readers alike, these pages are an invitation to heal and be with what’s alive and blooming right now, right here.
Proceeds will support I-O’s operating costs.