{"id":807913,"date":"2020-05-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384069"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:00:00","slug":"move-create-radiate-mia-tarduno-releases-universal-book-of-womens-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/move-create-radiate-mia-tarduno-releases-universal-book-of-womens-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Move, create, radiate: Mia Tarduno releases universal book of women\u2019s tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-3-1-1024x684.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-3-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-3-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-3-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-3-1-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-3-1-2048x1368.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Local Frisco author Mia Tarduno poses for an environmental portrait at the Walter Byron Park in Frisco on Tuesday, May 19. Tarduno is self-publishing her first book titled \u201cGood Enough\u201d containing poetry and drawings of women, which is inspired by a year of travel throughout the world.<\/strong><br \/><em>Jason Connolly \/ jconnolly@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>FRISCO \u2014 Since moving to Summit County roughly six years ago, Mia Tarduno has taken an annual international vacation to relax and explore. Yet Tarduno\u2019s latest excursion was unlike ones prior. It started in April 2019 and went for about a year as she lived in Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Costa Rica and other locales. She also returned to places she\u2019d been before such as Thailand, Hawaii and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether it was a new or familiar destination, the goal was different this year. Inspired by conversations with people around town, Tarduno sought to interview women about their hardships and triumphs. They discussed societal pressures and topics such as worthiness, loneliness, vulnerability, body image and connection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really interested in finding out if the struggles we have here in Summit County were similar to women around the world and was especially interested in what we require of ourselves to feel good enough,\u201d Tarduno said.&nbsp;\u201cI listened to a lot of stories of that coming out in different ways of women feeling like they needed to be a lot more or less of something in order to be a good enough girlfriend, wife, employee, friend, partner, whatever it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appropriately, those tales became Tarduno\u2019s first published book, \u201cGood Enough.\u201d The paperback collects Tarduno\u2019s watercolor paintings that illustrate her journey paired with poems crafted from the women\u2019s stories. She found the messages the women shared to be universally relatable, so each free-verse poem is written in a first-person perspective.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat I was feeling, what she was feeling, what another woman was feeling, would turn into a poem that could be a couple of people\u2019s stories combined,\u201d Tarduno said. \u201cI found tremendous healing power in what comes from being able to have our voices heard and share our stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanderlust<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traveling isn\u2019t new to Tarduno. Originally from New York, she moved to Boulder after graduating college to work for Bold Earth teaching backpacking to teenagers. Tarduno ended up staying in Colorado beyond that one summer and eventually moved to Summit to be even closer to the mountains and the outdoors. Her first job in the region was teaching yoga at the Silverthorne Recreation Center but she has since switched to private lessons and developing her own brand, Move Create Radiate. She offers coaching, virtual gatherings and other courses and services geared toward women.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2018 Tarduno spent a two-week vacation in Greece. She yearned to let her creative juices flow and went into an art store to purchase a travel tin of watercolors. She would take reference photos and then translate the images onto paper with the new medium that she fell in love with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friend and I sat on the beach one day, and I started drawing in watercolor and really loved it, and then it grew from there with what I could create,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>That tin has been replaced, but she kept the hobby for her longer trip last April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was living out of a 40-liter backpack for the entire time, so I needed the way to create art that was something that I could easily travel with,\u201d Tarduno said. \u201cSo finding a couple pens and a small watercolor tin was a good way, I felt, that I could still express art.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-5-768x1024.jpeg\" alt class=\"wp-image-384070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-5-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-5-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-5-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-5-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-5-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Mia Tarduno self-published her first book, \u201cGood Enough.\u201d The book is a series of poems and paintings that discuss various women\u2019s issues such as vulnerability, worthiness and body image.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Mia Tarduno<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tarduno\u2019s style is influenced by line drawings with abstracted scenes that embrace white space and leave out details, such as eyes and facial expressions, in her subject. The lack of defining features makes the first-person poetry from a wide variety of women more accessible as the reader can become a 24-year-old on her first solo expedition or a 61-year-old mother.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, she\u2019d fill in the gaps on the map and chose a destination along the way, but there were countries that Tarduno planned to visit on certain dates. She\u2019d follow a yoga instructor to her new home in Bali or take a course on trauma-informed yoga \u2014 the practice of recovering from traumatic experiences with specific breathing rhythms and poses \u2014 in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>She studied dance, anthropology and environmental studies in college \u2014 majors and minors she still uses with her yoga practice and chronicling travel stories \u2014 but Tarduno didn\u2019t focus on art back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents joke that they should have sent me to art school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the painting, the poetry was simply self-discovered and became the natural medium for the book to tell the tales of a 20-year-old Nepali girl who started a podcast for women athletes or a 14-year-old who grew up as a nomad with her family of seven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a conscious decision.\u201d Tarduno said. \u201cIt was more the way that I was reiterating stories or the way that I was expressing my own emotions would naturally come out in poetry to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-6-1024x678.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-384071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-6-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-6-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-6-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-6-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-6-2048x1356.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Local author, artist, yoga instructor and women\u2019s coach Mia Tarduno painted this image of women in Nepal for her book \u201cGood Enough.\u201d The book can be found locally at Red Buffalo Coffee &amp; Tea as well as online.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Mia Tarduno<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before Costa Rica, Tarduno took a break from her journeys to participate in HighSide Brewing\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-artists-make-do-with-virtual-art-night\/\">Third Thursday Art Night<\/a>. Since she\u2019s still new to the art world, it took her awhile to have enough postcards and prints to display, and while the one in-person event she attended wasn\u2019t extremely lucrative, she\u2019s glad she was able to connect with other artists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t really met many other artists since moving here,\u201d Tarduno said. \u201cIt was really cool for me to go to an event like that and see that there are a lot of other people doing artwork. I\u2019ve been able to keep some of those connections and continue the conversation with other artists in the county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good enough<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After her trip, it didn\u2019t take long for Tarduno to compile the book as she worked on it in segments while traveling. Tarduno noted that with pictures and poems scattered among napkins and journals, she relived her adventure as she made the book. Because of her emotional closeness to the project, she also had friends read the poems to make sure they made sense and adequately got the message across.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially with writing, when you get in a state of flow, sometimes it just comes out,\u201d Tarduno said. \u201cLater, I won\u2019t even remember that that\u2019s really what I wrote. It was neat to go back and read them. I feel like even on my own, I get a different perspective each time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it can be read cover to cover, Tarduno encourages readers to leave it out to be referenced sporadically like a coffee-table book.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-7-959x1024.jpeg\" alt class=\"wp-image-384072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-7-959x1024.jpeg 959w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-7-281x300.jpeg 281w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-7-768x820.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-7-1438x1536.jpeg 1438w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/TardunoBook-SDN-052920-7.jpeg 1805w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>A mountainous landscape painted by Mia Tarduno featured in her book \u201cGood Enough.\u201d Tarduno has been painting for only about two years and has recently gotten involved with HighSide Brewing\u2019s Third Thursday Art Nights.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Mia Tarduno<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSomething I heard a lot of from reviews already I\u2019m really excited about is that different poems will speak to the reader at different times,\u201d Tarduno said, adding that it can be enjoyed by people no matter their age, gender or background.\u201d It\u2019s one you can come back to many times and get different guidance or perspective or stories from each time you go.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along with being available online, it can be purchased locally at Red Buffalo Coffee &amp; Tea. Tarduno also is offering signed, personalized copies from her website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movecreateradiate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MoveCreateRadiate.com<\/a>. She\u2019d like to do readings and other in-person events in the future, but for now, people can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/movecreateradiate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/movecreateradiate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> for virtual happenings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/move-create-radiate-mia-tarduno-releases-universal-book-of-womens-tales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Frisco author Mia Tarduno poses for an environmental portrait at the Walter Byron Park in Frisco on Tuesday, May 19. Tarduno is self-publishing her first book titled \u201cGood Enough\u201d containing poetry and drawings of women, which is inspired by a year of travel throughout the world.Jason Connolly \/ jconnolly@summitdaily.com FRISCO \u2014 Since moving to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 23:06:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}