Every Shade of Me

By Marilou Cabrera Areno

This book is not just a collection of moments, but a map of the ways I've learned to see the world-and myself, through movement, color, and place. Every brushstroke I lay on canvas, every summit I reach, and every mile I travel across the United States is a search for perspective. Art teaches me to look closely; climbing teaches me to hold on and let go in equal measure; travel teaches me to keep moving toward horizons I cannot yet name.
Together, they shape a story that is not linear, but layered like shades in a painting, like landscapes shifting across a long road trip. Some shades are bright with joy and discovery, others shadowed by struggle and doubt. But each belongs. Each tells of a version of me that mattered, and still does.
Every Shade of Me is both an invitation and a reflection: an invitation for you to walk, climb, and wander with me through the textures of art and adventure; a reflection on how identity, like the open road, is never finished, only unfolding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6214955287
• ISBN13: 9786214955282
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Poetry Planet Book Publishing House
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"