Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age--and Other Unexpected Adventures
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743275128 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Whether it is the arrival and departure of certain birds in spring and fall, wandering turtles, or the springtime ritual of lambing, the natural world is a constant revelation. Reeve writes about discovering, thirty years after her father's death and two and a half years after her mother's, that her father had three secret families in Europe. "Time flies," she observes, "but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too." A milestone birthday is also an opportunity to take stock of oneself, although such self-reflection may lead to nothing more than the realization, as Reeve puts it, "that I just seem to continue being me, the same person I was at twelve and at fifty." At sixty, as she observes, "all I really can do with the rest of my life is tofeel all of it, every bit of it, as much as I can for as long as I can." Age is only one of many subjects that Reeve writes about with perception and insight. Age brings loss, but also love; disaster, but also delight. The second-graders Reeve taught many years a
A pleasure to read What a pleasure to read! I am not quite finished with this Kindle book and the more I read it, the more I'm enjoying it. Lindbergh is a sensitive, thoughtful, writer and I can relate to her experiences on so many levels. I, too, am a woman of a certain age, a mother, grandmother, potential (me, not her) writer. Her perspective on life, the natural world, her family just drew me in and I found myself wishing she were my friend.Thank you, Reeve, for a lo. Just didn't grab me MizLoo The writing is very good, but somehow flat. I really wanted to like this book, and I did finish it, but I'll never be tempted to re-read it.. Judy Ha said I loved this book. I loved this book, as I have all of Reeve Lindbergh's work, especially how she writes about family life with warmth and humor.
Heading her list of concerns is her looming 60th birthday and the change and decline that it symbolizes-the departure from home of her children, a benign brain tumor, the therapeutic drug culture that is the hallmark of old age in America. Lindbergh also explores her fraught relationship with her father, the aviator Charles Lindbergh, "an angry, restless, opinionated perfectionist" whose "very presence alternately crowded and startled everyone," and grapples with the discovery that he had secretly fathered seven children-her half siblings-in Europe. From Publishers Weekly In this collection of poignant essays, Lindbergh (
Reeve Lindbergh is the author of several books for adults and children. . She lives with her husband, Nat Tripp, and several animals on a farm in northern Vermont. They include the memoir of her childhood and youth, Under a Wing, No More Words, a description of the last years of her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Forward From Here, a memoir about entering her sixties