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Mismatched Socks is a meeting place-where myth slips into morning, love and fear shift shape, and everyday life reveals its hidden pulse. Mismatched Socks is written at the threshold between poem and story. It uses allegory, myth, and everyday observation as parallel vessels for presence-inviting readers not to decode poetry, but to step into it. Rather than privileging abstraction or formal difficulty, the book embraces warmth, narrative clarity, and repetition as a meditative practice. It is designed as a meeting place: for experienced poetry readers and for those encountering poetry as a lived, daily companion for the first time. The collection unfolds in two movements: Part I offers an allegory of Love Without Names. Through the timeless journey of The Mountain and the Butterfly, we trace the familiar arc of the human experience-the cycles of losing ourselves, reconnecting, and beginning again. These verses remind us that presence is not something to be learned, but something to return to-and that every ending holds a quiet beginning. Part II is a dedicated practice of noticing. Born from a forty-day ritual-one poem each morning, composed simultaneously in Turkish and English-these pieces ground the abstract in the ordinary. Here, the profound meets the everyday through conversations, heartbreak, healing, and half-sipped coffee. Together, these two parts ask a single, echoing question: ""Are you here?"" Not for an answer, but for a shift- a softer way of being, a lightness within the small rituals of living, a way of listening and loosening, until the heart remembers its way back home.

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Eda Kara (aka Eda Uzuncakara)'s life has unfolded on the bridges of existence-between logic and creativity, corporate intensity and mindful presence, Istanbul and New York, English and Turkish.Majoring in Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University and holding a Master's degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, along with additional credentials from Harvard Business School, she has built a career in finance and technology leadership. Her path includes key roles at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan in New York and at Mastercard in Istanbul.Through Bistrouge, the restaurant she opened in Manhattan, she encountered the city's layered intersections-an experience that enriched her not only as an entrepreneur but as a human being.Alongside the corporate and entrepreneurial world, she nurtured a parallel devotion to poetry, storytelling, meditation, yoga, and expressive arts-exploring how data-driven structures can soften into intuition, imagination, and breath.She is the author of Jumping on the Drips, a collection of interwoven stories; the novel Shared Pulse: Love and Transformation in a City of Crossings; and the poetry collection, Mismatched Socks, published in English and Turkish as Varla Yok Arasından Şiirler: Sessiz Senfoni.She is also the mother of a daughter finding her own way in the world-a parallel journey that keeps teaching Eda about love, wonder, courage, and the quiet art of becoming.Eda's curiosity lives where algorithms meet emotion, where imperfection becomes possibility, and where the smallest moments crack the heart open again. Through her workshops on creativity and self discovery, she accompanies others in their own cycles of remembering-using storytelling in various forms as a compass, mirror, and gentle invitation.Her work continues to explore transformation in liminal spaces-between worlds, between breaths-seeking the shared pulse beneath it all.

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