Gift from the Sea

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She talks about how women's lives are so full of responsibilities, meals to be made, housecleaning, kids to be taken care of, pets, hobbies, friends, children's friends, activities, children's activities, committees and husbands that women rarely take any time for themselves to be renewed. In making her book so accessible, so broadly applicable, Lindbergh has made herself too generic, her voice and story too impersonal. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The argonauta symbolizes a new type of relationship that is possible after the onset of middle age and the “oyster bed” stage. Second printing of this classic work, per copyright page: "First and Second Printing: February, 1955" Strong hinges, clean boards and cloth, some edge and corner wear with a couple corners worn through, with light spine lean.

With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. Even those whose lives had appeared to be ticking imperturbably under their smiling clock-faces were often trying, like me, to evolve another rhythm with more creative pauses in it, more adjustment to their individual needs, and new and more alive relationships to themselves as well as others. I can't wait to read the book when I'm 50 and again at 80 and see if Anne Morrow Lindbergh still GETS me. While on vacation on Florida's Captiva Island in the early 1950s, Lindbergh wrote the essay-style work by taking shells on the beach for inspiration and reflecting on the lives of Americans, particularly American women, in the mid-20th century.Or rather—for I believe the heart is infinite—modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry. A sensitive, tensile, original mind probes delicately into questions of balance and relationship in the world today. It is a tale about the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves, and those we love, from heartbreak.

She doesn’t idealize this phase of marriage, recognizing that like the oyster shell’s, its excrescences are “not primarily beautiful but functional.First published in 1955 and an instant bestseller, Gift from the Sea is a classic, wise book for women about how to flourish in life, how to balance life, work, motherhood; about finding space to think and breathe. It involves not only family demands, but community demands, national demands, international demands on the good citizen, through social and cultural pressures, through newspapers, magazines, radio programs, political drives, charitable appeals, and so on. It is a beautiful description of the constantly changing nature of love in a strong marriage partnership.

For a fuller account of the book and its place in its author’s own life, which was certainly “heavily encrusted with accumulations,” read Victoria Best’s wonderful essay about Lindbergh and Gift from the Sea at Open Letters Monthly. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom. First published in 1955 and an instant bestseller, Gift from the Sea's insights - into aspects of the modern world that threaten to overwhelm us, the complications of technology, the ever multiplying commitments that take us from our families - are as relevant today as they ever were, perhaps even more so. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She shares her meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment during her visit.Because we cannot deal with the complexity of the present, we often over-ride it and live in a simplified dream of the future. And so gradually, these chapters, fed by conversations, arguments and revelations from men and women of all groups, became more than my individual story, until I decided in the end to give them back to the people who had shared and stimulated many of these thoughts.

Closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life: life of the spirit, creative life and the life of human relationships.Sarah was absolutely the most perfect combination of helping to create a wedding that was truly "us" while at the same time giving us a number of alternatives for dealings with some of the details that would otherwise have been bewildering. Something Victoria’s essay brings out that I didn’t mention but which is also really important is what an interesting text it is about feminism, too. Just before I went to NYC, I downloaded the audio version and was surprised to see how short it was.