We Sit written by Taiju Geri Wilimek with paintings by Marley Kaul invites readers to slow down and join an artist and a poet as they contemplate mortality through stunning art and Zen-inspired poetry.

Painter Marley Kaul offers 20 images of egg tempera paintings made during a year-long period of meditative reflection after being diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2016. Taiju Geri Wilimek, living in the aftermath of a 1998 cancer diagnosis, offers poetry that could only have been written after a long period of healing, enabled by the study and practice of mindfulness meditation and the teachings of zen.

Kaul and Wilimek, friends for decades, share a pull toward the investigation of life and death through meditation and art.