Fly while you still have wings : and other lessons my resilient mother taught me
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Fly while you still have wings : and other lessons my resilient mother taught me
Sorin Books, c2015
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
In this heartfelt memoir about her mother Hilda's final years, Joyce Rupp shares
the lessons her mother taught her, especially to "fly while you still have
wings." As a poor farmer's wife and the mother of eight living on rented land in
Maryhill, Iowa, Hilda lived a life with hard labor and constant responsibility-from
milking cows and raising chickens to keeping the farm's financial ledger. Rupp
shows how the difficulties of her mother's early years and family life, including the
loss of a twenty-three-year-old son, forged a resilience that guided her through the
illnesses and losses she faced later on. This affectionate profile of their relationship
is, at the same time, an honest self-examination as Rupp shares the ways she failed
to listen to, accept, and understand her mother in her final years.
Rupp begins each chapter with a meditative poem that captures the essence of
each stage in the journey. Her unfailing candor and profound faith illumine this
story of a mother and daughter with a universal spirit of hope, reconciliation, and
peace.
Readers who care for the elderly will identify with the joys and sorrows that Rupp
experienced. Likewise, those who are grieving for a parent will find an open and
sensitive portrayal of the conflicting emotions that arise in the process of letting
go. Anyone approaching their elder years will discover a model of how to enter the
aging process with dignity and honesty that accepts the
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