Book One · Four stories
The Ones Still Here
For the people who have always been there.
Illustrated gift books by Sophi Garcia
Give it to the one whose voice you still know by heart.
Three gift books. Twelve stories made to stay.
Illustrated stories of the people nearest us: the memories they carry, the lives they have lived, and the moments we almost pass by.
Why We Miss The Wayona Lan Stories
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Some of the people we love most are the ones we stop seeing, folded into our mornings, our silences, the small rooms of memory we keep walking past.
The sister. The mother. The friend. The quiet one who stayed close enough to become ordinary.
These stories ask, gently, the question we spend our lives avoiding: why do we miss the ones still beside us, while there is still time to know them?
The collection
Which story feels like theirs?
Each book brings together four stories. Begin with the person you have in mind.
Book Two · Four stories
A Little More Light
For the one who notices the little things.
Book Three · Four stories
Still Her Own
For someone who has always known their own mind.
Gift One
The Ones Still Here
A keepsake edition gathering four Wayona Lan stories about the people nearest us. Illustrated with paintings, made to be held, kept, and given.
- IThe Doctor Who Did Not Knock
- IIThe Call That Waited
- IIIThe Room That Remembered Her
- IVThe Song She Thought Was Gone
Four stories · 167 pages · Illustrated gift edition
A closer look at the art
Rooms you almost remember.
Quiet rooms, familiar objects, and glimpses of gold between painted layers. Open a painting and spend a little time with its detail.
The paintings inside The Ones Still Here
Gift Two
A Little More Light
Restoration does not arrive as a new beginning.
Four more Wayona Lan stories of family, choice, and the things people keep. A keepsake edition with paintings and room for a personal inscription.
- INo One Asked Her to Stay
- IIShe Knew the Shorter Way
- IIINo One Wanted It Gone
- IVBefore We Called It Forgiveness
Four stories · 199 pages · Illustrated gift edition
The paintings inside A Little More Light
Gift Three
Still Her Own
Care can enter a room and still forget to ask.
A haircut. An open window. An unfinished sentence. A repaired chair. Four Wayona Lan stories about having a say in your own life.
- IShe Had Already Chosen
- IIHe Asked for the Window Open
- IIIThey Finished Her Sentence
- IVThe Chair Was Still Hers
Four stories · 216 pages · Illustrated gift edition
The paintings inside Still Her Own
Gift-edition design preview: the gold page edges show the proposed finish. Final print details will be confirmed before ordering.
Three illustrated gift books·Twelve stories·By Sophi Garcia
The gold beneath
There is more within a life
than we see at first glance.
Our digital illustrations evoke impasto paint over a brushed-gold ground. Gold appears between the painted strokes, much as a memory can bring a familiar place to life.
For Wayona Lan, that light speaks of what a person carries within: the years, the love, and the stories still worth hearing.
The gold is part of the digital artwork. Physical cover and page finishes will be confirmed with each edition.
A signature of care.
Our custom Wayona Lan signature lettering brings the warmth of a handwritten dedication to the page. Small water-drop finishes soften the capital letters; fine curls give the lowercase a gentler ending. For us, the water drop represents a small act of care whose effect carries beyond its moment.
A rose to begin. A rose to remember.
Wyona’s favorite flower becomes the collection’s quiet signature. The framed gold rose opens each chapter, giving its story a place of honor. The rose with leaves and fine gold lines marks the close of the reading.
The withered rose, its stem bare of leaves, belongs to the chapter’s quiet end pages. It leaves room to breathe and reflect. Its gold remains, a reminder that change does not erase what is precious.
The pleasure of giving a book
Write their name inside.
Make time for their story.
For your mom or dad. An aunt whose table always has room for you. A friend you wish you saw more often.
Give it at Christmas, bring it on a Thanksgiving visit, or mark the New Year with a few pages together. For someone living in long-term care, it may be a welcome reason to sit, read, and talk.
Hardcover editions in preparation
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