There are things I have been collecting my whole life. Not objects — habits. Practices. Sentences my grandmother said once that I have carried for sixty years.

I put them all in one place. Everything I know. Everything the women in my village taught me. Everything I wish someone had told me when I was young enough for it to change the shape of my life.

This collection includes all four of Obaachan’s guides:

— Finding Your Ikigai — the reason you get out of bed on an ordinary morning — The Imperfect Home — the practice of letting go of “when it’s perfect” — Obaachan’s Morning — 21 days of small Japanese rituals before the world rushes in — 30 Days with Obaachan — a month of daily practices for living gently

Plus a set of bonus proverb cards — seven Japanese sayings for the days when everything feels heavy. Keep them where you can find them.

Buying them together saves you 36% — but more than that, it gives you everything in the order it was meant to be read. One conversation that builds on the last, the way a grandmother tells you things: slowly, in pieces, when you are ready for each one.