Our February meeting will be 6:30 pm on Thursday, February 28. The hostess has selected Gift From The Sea
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh for the our discussion. The book is readily available at the library and at local
book sellers.
From Amazon.com:
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations
on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief
vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a
woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an
acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity
that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple
commitments that take us from our families. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from
everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.
With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage,
presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling
work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new
generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh’s daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary
edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh
insight into the life of this remarkable woman.
The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s life. She
spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in
1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the North Atlantic to launch the first transoceanic
airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived
quietly, wrote books and raised their family.
After the children left home for lives of their own, the Lindberghs traveled extensively to Africa and the Pacific
for environmental research. For several years they lived on the island of Maui in Hawaii, where Charles
Lindbergh died in 1974.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh spent her final years in her Connecticut home, continuing her writing projects and
enjoying visits from her children and grand-children. She died on February 7, 2001, at the age of ninety-four.
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