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 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. I read it about 40 years ago, but it impressed me enough to seek out the author's 'Bring Me a Unicorn.' It also got me interested in seashells, and I read it about 40 years ago, but it impressed me enough to seek out the author's 'Bring Me a Unicorn.' It also got me interested in seashells, and influenced my own writing style. Not that I'll ever be published, but. AML and Rumer Godden are the two women who have most influenced me, and Ray Bradbury was the male writer who did.
Now, there's a real mixture! This is one of those books that really will change your life, and it's one that absolutely should. Lindberg (the wife of Charles Lindberg) explores the necessity of not only looking inward, but of focusing on one's development in order to fully live as a person, a woman, a mother, and a wife. She is especially potent when discussing the necessity of occasional moments of solitude in order to realign one's priorities and give freedom to creative expression, rather than running oneself ragged with This is one of those books that really will change your life, and it's one that absolutely should. Lindberg (the wife of Charles Lindberg) explores the necessity of not only looking inward, but of focusing on one's development in order to fully live as a person, a woman, a mother, and a wife.
She is especially potent when discussing the necessity of occasional moments of solitude in order to realign one's priorities and give freedom to creative expression, rather than running oneself ragged with the million fragmented responsibilities of the American woman. This book was written in 1955, and it is even more relevant today. The text is anchored with a series of metaphors based on the shells that Lindberg collected over a 2 week retreat to the beach, and somehow the shells make perfect sense. In reading this I realized that I need to not only focus on continuing my own inner development for my own sake, but so that I can be an interesting woman, a mother more capable of giving, and a wife who will continue to grow with my husband rather than stagnate in the ceaseless pursuit of vital-but admittedly repetitive-household tasks. So.reading this book, in places, made me long to go back to Atlantic Beach, made me go back and read my diaries of New York. I thought carefully about whether my strongly adverse feelings about this book were actually warranted or not. I have decided that there is a middle ground I must take here.
Here's my unabashed assessment, untainted by the millions of people who seem to LOVE this book: if you've already lived the hard life, and come through it, worse for the wear but better in soul, don't so.reading this book, in places, made me long to go back to Atlantic Beach, made me go back and read my diaries of New York. I thought carefully about whether my strongly adverse feelings about this book were actually warranted or not. I have decided that there is a middle ground I must take here. Here's my unabashed assessment, untainted by the millions of people who seem to LOVE this book: if you've already lived the hard life, and come through it, worse for the wear but better in soul, don't bother with Gifts From the Sea. It will probably seem like common knowledge in the form of over-elaborate metaphor to you. However, if you are living the hard life right now, this book still might not be worth the read, because if you are truly in a rough spot, battling the demons of life, this may just make you bitter that some lady with a rich social life and ample resources is trying to tell you how to live yours.
That said, it's always worth a shot to read and gain insight into something, so see how it strikes you. The people I actually recommend this to are those who are young traditionalists. I can see how a young mother might gain much wisdom from this.
Or a person just starting out in life, maybe in a dorm somewhere, or maybe someone young who has just graduated college. This is a book meant for people who started right, followed the steps in the right order, and never strayed from the norm, in order to awaken the creative and contemplative soul in the everyday woman. Which is wonderful and utterly commendable. This, to me, is not a book for the extremist, the eccentric, the serious rebel, the woman who saw a path and decided to blaze off through uncharted territory,eventually caught by the briars of life on that untread path. These people do not need advice on how to find themselves, or awaken creativity.
Just one eccentric woman's 2 cents worth. I absolutely LOVE this book!! I highly highly recommend it. It is the perfect gift to give a friend/sister/mother or to buy for yourself to read and re-read. It is also a really quick read which is a nice little bonus.
If you want a really professional review read Lucy's. (I really think Lucy should become a book critic). But here's what I thought about it.this was my second time reading the book.
The first time I read it I was around 18 and getting ready to leave for college. My mom had read I absolutely LOVE this book!!
I highly highly recommend it. It is the perfect gift to give a friend/sister/mother or to buy for yourself to read and re-read. It is also a really quick read which is a nice little bonus. If you want a really professional review read Lucy's. (I really think Lucy should become a book critic). But here's what I thought about it.this was my second time reading the book.
The first time I read it I was around 18 and getting ready to leave for college. My mom had read it and really liked it and had suggested I read it.
(She has always had two copies of this book.one she kept at home and one she kept at her office). I read it and liked it and even took notes and wrote down favorite quotes from it. (I actually found my old franklin planner and the notes that I took.it was really fun to read). When I read it at 18 my parents were in the process of getting divorced, my family was moving from Kansas City to Houston, and I was getting ready to leave for BYU. Most of the quotes I wrote down were about separation. 'Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time.
It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done.life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before' Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
I also had a few that I wrote down about trying to figure out who I was and how I mattered to the world. '.When one is a stranger to one's self then one is a estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others'. Anne Morrow Lindbergh I remember crying on my bed, while reading the book, thinking.Anne Morrow Lindbergh really GETS me.
Reading it again at 34 it was a like a whole different book and this time I was laughing reading it thinking.Anne Morrow Lindbergh really GETS me. She compares the different phases of a woman's life to different sea shells. I loved the analogy of the oyster shell. That would be the married/raising a family stage.
She describes it as very ordinary looking.rather lumpy.embedded on a rock.with things attached to it. She talks about how it reminded her of a house full of children, toys and bikes everywhere, with friends spilling out, noisy, messy and chaotic.
That sounds so familiar!! 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.
So that quote that I wrote down when I was 18 about being a stranger to one's self means something totally different at 34. I also really liked how she described the different stages of marriage. My favorite quote from this read-through was: 'Love isn't gazing at each other.it is standing side by side and looking in the same direction' I think this book has had such appeal and longevity because it is full of universal truths. We, women, are more alike than we are different and that it even transcends time and generations. 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.somehow I think she will.
This was a great little memoir to read! With only 130 pages, it doesn't take too long to read.
In fact, you can read it in chapters over a long period of time and you'll have no problems following along. Most of all, I enjoyed the ideas and inspiration in this book by being more authentic with yourself and your life. To be okay with disappointment along with joy.
To be more aware of your aloneness, thoughts while you are alone and being okay with those thoughts. I loved how she wrote about living This was a great little memoir to read! With only 130 pages, it doesn't take too long to read. In fact, you can read it in chapters over a long period of time and you'll have no problems following along. Most of all, I enjoyed the ideas and inspiration in this book by being more authentic with yourself and your life. To be okay with disappointment along with joy.
To be more aware of your aloneness, thoughts while you are alone and being okay with those thoughts. I loved how she wrote about living in the moment and allowing yourself to go with the flow of life and responsibilities. You can gain something from this book depending on the subject matter and what you're looking for. I love walking around a bookstore and picking up five or six books of varying genres that catch my eye, sitting down and skimming.
If I'm interested I may read a chapter or two, a dozen poems, maybe even ponder buying it before I put them all back on the shelf. This was number four in a stack of nine that I picked up today at Borders.
After skimming the introduction, I flipped to the first chapter. Forty-five minutes later I had left the store to get a pen from my car and had picked up three n I love walking around a bookstore and picking up five or six books of varying genres that catch my eye, sitting down and skimming. If I'm interested I may read a chapter or two, a dozen poems, maybe even ponder buying it before I put them all back on the shelf. This was number four in a stack of nine that I picked up today at Borders. After skimming the introduction, I flipped to the first chapter. Forty-five minutes later I had left the store to get a pen from my car and had picked up three napkins at the adjoining coffee shop to scribble down quotes. I didn't even touch the other five in my stack once I had opened this.
It was wonderful to start the year with a book that contemplates life in a lyrical fashion, using metaphor to reach truth. Lindberg writes of simplicity to the end of clearing out the distractions and leading to focus on what is most important.
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She writes of the importance of making time to be alone to reflect on who we are - 'When one is stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.' My campus minster says something very similar - 'When you don't feed yourself, how can you feed others?' She writes of relationships throughout their changing spans, from the 'one-and-only moments', being with just the person sitting across from you, whether your spouse, child, or friend, so they feel cared for individually. She writes to help herself deal with the movements of life as they come to her, and in doing so, has captured something to for others mull over. What a restful day I've had. I've really got to stop reading a book just based on the title and cover. I love the sea and the beach.
During the fall and winter I go sea glass hunting North of Boston. It's my second passion to books.
My house is filled with all types of sea shells and different shades of sea glass. My husband tells me I should make jewelry when I give up my current job. I've got to say this book is quite outdated.
It's all about women and their place in society. I don't need someone to tell me that females ne I've really got to stop reading a book just based on the title and cover.
I love the sea and the beach. During the fall and winter I go sea glass hunting North of Boston. It's my second passion to books. My house is filled with all types of sea shells and different shades of sea glass. My husband tells me I should make jewelry when I give up my current job. I've got to say this book is quite outdated.
It's all about women and their place in society. I don't need someone to tell me that females need to seek solitude. I love solitude and wish I had more of it. When my husband says do I mind if he goes out with the folks from work after hours I'm like go!
This book sounds like something my mother would have wrote. She hated to be alone. I could never understand that.
Who wants to be around people all the time? A walk on the beach with the seagulls overhead, the sun on your back, and the sand in your toes is what it's all about for me. Gift From the Sea is a shorty so no big deal. But I sure didn't expect it to be like Dear Abby! 3 out of 5 stars (kindly). I remember reading this at BYU for a class and having to do a paper on it. I remember wondering what all the hoopla was about it.
It just didn't do all that much for me. But now, some 30+ years later, it had a whole new meaning for me as I truly understood and felt exactly what she was expressing. It is amazing that though this book was written over 50 years ago, so many of her observations still ring true today, and I found myself marking up page after page. Perhaps the most I got from it wa I remember reading this at BYU for a class and having to do a paper on it.
I remember wondering what all the hoopla was about it. It just didn't do all that much for me.
But now, some 30+ years later, it had a whole new meaning for me as I truly understood and felt exactly what she was expressing. It is amazing that though this book was written over 50 years ago, so many of her observations still ring true today, and I found myself marking up page after page. Perhaps the most I got from it was more understanding of the need to embrace each phase of life. The ebb and the flow like the sea tide.
It would be interesting for me now to re-read that paper I wrote back in college! I found this audio in the bag I keep in the car. It's a nonfiction account of one woman’s ruminations on life while she escapes to a beach cottage for a few weeks. This was written in the 50's but much of it still feels eerily current and will resonate most with introverts. The MP3 player in my car didn’t like the way this disc was formatted and played the tracks out of order so I can’t review this properly as it kept skipping around.
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If it weren’t so short (2 hrs or so) I would’ve thrown in the I found this audio in the bag I keep in the car. It's a nonfiction account of one woman’s ruminations on life while she escapes to a beach cottage for a few weeks.
This was written in the 50's but much of it still feels eerily current and will resonate most with introverts. The MP3 player in my car didn’t like the way this disc was formatted and played the tracks out of order so I can’t review this properly as it kept skipping around. If it weren’t so short (2 hrs or so) I would’ve thrown in the towel for this reason but it was short enough that I got the gist without getting too frustrated. It’s basically about taking time outs from your life to find your “center”, living with less stuff and fewer distractions and experiencing relationships in the present rather than dwelling on how great they were in the past or worrying about what may happen in the future. All sound advice, if you ask me.
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky.” There are a lot of beautiful 'quotables' in this book but I didn't take notes. This one struck a cord, and stuck with me, for obvious book related reasons;). Anne Lindbergh spent two weeks on Captiva Island in Florida, one week alone and one week with her sister, reflecting on her life and relationships.
She uses five shells found on the beach to symbolize her ideas. She felt that women should try to simplify their lives. Find time for solitude, creativity, and an inner life. Have time alone with your spouse and each child for 'one-and-only moments'. Find balance between obligations to your family and your community, and time for inner harmony. Relati Anne Lindbergh spent two weeks on Captiva Island in Florida, one week alone and one week with her sister, reflecting on her life and relationships.
She uses five shells found on the beach to symbolize her ideas. She felt that women should try to simplify their lives.
Find time for solitude, creativity, and an inner life. Have time alone with your spouse and each child for 'one-and-only moments'. Find balance between obligations to your family and your community, and time for inner harmony. Relationships have ebbs and flows like the tide, and peaks and troughs like the waves. Three of her shells represented different phases in relationships, especially marriage, as people go through life. Enjoy the present, find the joy and peace in the here and now. This lovely slim volume written in 1955 was partly memoir, and partly an inspirational group of essays.
The author was a wife and mother during my grandmother's and my mother's generations. It made me wonder what Anne Lindbergh would think about the world today where my daughters' generation is bombarded with information and new devices constantly.
Perhaps today's woman has even more need to nurture an inner life as this book suggests. Okay, my favorite part of this book was the afterwards, wherein Ms. Lindbergh acknowledges just how dated the book's appraisal of feminism was (the book was written in 1955, so you can't blame her for what she didn't know was right around the corner - still, her somewhat negative appraisal bugged me and I was relieved that she acknowledged its problems). She also hints at how difficult it is to follow her type of super-zen advice in real life. I hate to say it, because so many women just L.O.V.E.
Okay, my favorite part of this book was the afterwards, wherein Ms. Lindbergh acknowledges just how dated the book's appraisal of feminism was (the book was written in 1955, so you can't blame her for what she didn't know was right around the corner - still, her somewhat negative appraisal bugged me and I was relieved that she acknowledged its problems). She also hints at how difficult it is to follow her type of super-zen advice in real life. I hate to say it, because so many women just L.O.V.E. This book, but it just didn't do much for me. There were definitely some lovely moments here, but much of it was cliched platitudes, and sounded pretty stale and New Age-y to me. It's the kind of stuff that sounds pretty wise, but it's hard to figure out what it really means.
Lindbergh, who I have much respect for, the maximum amount of credit, these ideas might be cliches because this book is just that popular. If so, good for her. Maybe I am at the wrong time in my life for this book - it's quite possible. Being a married but childless lawyer, I don't spend a lot of time worrying about 'giving too much of myself.' This is more a (perfectly legit) concern of mothers and homemakers. There may be some personality issues as well.
I'm pretty social. I like hanging out with people. I do enjoy my alone time (which I spend reading, hello), but I'm just not desperate for it like more introverted types often are. This book is definitely very supportive of introverts, but that was a little lost on me. I actually like bustle.
I don't like silence and quiet (I mean, that's what ipods were invented for!). I'm tired of preachy introverts suggesting that this means I'm not contemplative!
I'm not giving up on this book entirely - I may come back to this - but for now, 'Eh.' Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote these musings in 1955, and it is definitely a capture in a moment of time, when roles for women were still assumed to be #1- marriage, #2 - having children, and #3 - taking care of the household. Lindbergh herself in the 20 year anniversary afterword in the version I have mused on how quickly roles and rights changed in her own lifetime, and how central women were to not only their own rights but other civil rights movements. Still, even though I am not a mother or a h Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote these musings in 1955, and it is definitely a capture in a moment of time, when roles for women were still assumed to be #1- marriage, #2 - having children, and #3 - taking care of the household. Lindbergh herself in the 20 year anniversary afterword in the version I have mused on how quickly roles and rights changed in her own lifetime, and how central women were to not only their own rights but other civil rights movements. Still, even though I am not a mother or a housewife, I still found plenty that resonated with me.
The need for silence, for solitude, for reflection. The ways we deplete ourselves without carving out time for breathing and thinking. And the gift of being on an island. In my imaginary life, on an imaginary island, I would keep this on my bookshelf to pull out in quiet moments, and maybe use her words to inspire me to be better at journaling and pulling back. Some of it fits right in with my desire to be more mindful, more reflective, and maybe there are some shells with something to teach me too. This book was discussed on of the Reading Envy Podcast.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of being a woman in America in the fifties. She compares different stages of marriage to different shells. The writing is beautiful, poignant, wise and the message clear. It is prose poetry.
She speaks of the need for simplification in a world cluttered with obligations and gadgets. She speaks of what can be gained by allowing one to withdraw and find inner solace within one's self.
How creativity replenishes the soul. She quotes among others, Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of being a woman in America in the fifties. She compares different stages of marriage to different shells. The writing is beautiful, poignant, wise and the message clear. It is prose poetry. She speaks of the need for simplification in a world cluttered with obligations and gadgets.
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She speaks of what can be gained by allowing one to withdraw and find inner solace within one's self. How creativity replenishes the soul. She quotes among others, and. I cannot express with her ability her philosophical views on life and marriage. They are amazingly relevant still today.
Anne was much more than merely the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh. There is a foreword by her youngest daughter. The audiobook is a republication of the original with an afterword from the author 20 years after the first publication in 1955. The audiobook narration by Claudette Colbert is easy to follow, even if a bit dated.
I highly recommend this short, contemplative book. It is one to return to over and over again. This book is a collection of essays by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, published first in 1955. Although many years have passed after its publication, I believe many women can relate to her thoughts and feelings reflected in her book. She uses simile of sea and sea-shells to describe life, motherhood, marriage, coming of age.
The book is written almost in a whispering tone; like the waves of a calm sea gently brushing the shore. Very soothing read.
One of the passages I enjoyed reading in the book is: ' This book is a collection of essays by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, published first in 1955. Although many years have passed after its publication, I believe many women can relate to her thoughts and feelings reflected in her book. She uses simile of sea and sea-shells to describe life, motherhood, marriage, coming of age. The book is written almost in a whispering tone; like the waves of a calm sea gently brushing the shore. Very soothing read.
One of the passages I enjoyed reading in the book is: 'Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. Perhaps one can shed at this stage in life as one sheds in beach-living; one’s pride, one’s false ambitions, one’s mask, one’s armor'. Scrounging around for a short book this morning, I came across this on the hallway bookshelf. Long ago, my great aunt had it on her table.
I remember her telling me how wonderful it was. But this is not her copy. The signature inside was my wife's grandmother's. What looks to be a first edition from 1955.
Life must have been so simple then. The good old I-Like-Ike days, after the (World) war and before the (Vietnam) war. I started to read.
At first, it seemed similar to Walden- Scrounging around for a short book this morning, I came across this on the hallway bookshelf. Long ago, my great aunt had it on her table. I remember her telling me how wonderful it was.
But this is not her copy. The signature inside was my wife's grandmother's. What looks to be a first edition from 1955.
Life must have been so simple then. The good old I-Like-Ike days, after the (World) war and before the (Vietnam) war. I started to read. At first, it seemed similar to Walden-all about simplicity, only in this case a well-to-do suburbanite woman on an unnamed beach vs.
A middle-aged man slash pencil maker on a pond named Walden. 42 I found a bookmark. As far as my wife's grandmother got, apparently. It was a business reply card to the Doubleday Book Shop, Bishop's Corner, West Hartford, CT. (Open until 6 p.m.) Interestingly, it reads: 'You have bought this book anticipating a satisfying reading experience. If the book does not upon closer examination appeal to you, bring it back to us and exchange it for another book.
Our only requirement for an exchange in our shops is that the book be currently salable and in new condition. Thank you for your patronage.' We're really going back in time. The LL Bean pledge, from a bookshop yet! Try finding that on Amazon today! And, turns out, my wife's grandmother was on to something, stopping as she did on p.
The decent start quickly devolved into stereotypes (women are inward-seeking, men outward, for instance) and 5-cent, self-help philosophizing, 50's chick-book style. The abstract words began to fall over each other as Lindbergh compared stages of marriage to various shells found on the beach. Still, I struggled through. And finished. The last of 2017, after I thought the one I finished yesterday was the last.
Leaving the problem of what to read tomorrow. The first of 2018. Maybe something else short, like the back of a cereal box. Something deep, like LIFE.
I think I moderately enjoyed this book as a 20-something young mother. But with an extra goodly number of years on my body, I now adore this book. I feel keenly that Anne Morrow Lindbergh is a kindred spirit. And if there are as many women as she insinuates who also feel that desperate need to 'get away' in order to recharge and refuel- so that they may come home ready to give again. Then there are more women like me than I thought. I wish I knew where they were. In any case, it has reaffirme I think I moderately enjoyed this book as a 20-something young mother.
But with an extra goodly number of years on my body, I now adore this book. I feel keenly that Anne Morrow Lindbergh is a kindred spirit. And if there are as many women as she insinuates who also feel that desperate need to 'get away' in order to recharge and refuel- so that they may come home ready to give again. Then there are more women like me than I thought.
I wish I knew where they were. In any case, it has reaffirmed to me that my desire for solitude is not selfish- but healthy.
And I am grateful to have a family who lets me do this once or twice a year. 6 weeks and counting until that eagerly anticipated solitary weekend. I finished this book & am glad for the chance to take it off my to-read list. What a treasure. So much of this book has relevance in my life today. In the three months leading up to our big move to Europe I had everything planned out like clockwork. Not knowing all that would happen on the 'other side of the ocean' or how long it would take to get settled, I had to leave it up to a flexible plan.
However, sometimes our 'flexible' plans are clung to too tightly and then unnecessary stress occu I finished this book & am glad for the chance to take it off my to-read list. What a treasure. So much of this book has relevance in my life today. In the three months leading up to our big move to Europe I had everything planned out like clockwork.
Not knowing all that would happen on the 'other side of the ocean' or how long it would take to get settled, I had to leave it up to a flexible plan. However, sometimes our 'flexible' plans are clung to too tightly and then unnecessary stress occurs. Like she says, 'Europeans today are enjoying the moment even if it means merely a walk in the country on Sunday or sipping a cup of black coffee at a cafe.' I'm having a lesson taught to me in this timeframe of my life to sit and enjoy the moment. No one is in a hurry here.why am I?
Not trusting enough? Knowing that everything in my life is exactly the way it should be.why push, fight, or resist? Thoughts to ponder. Anne says, 'It is more basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the distractions of life; how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal forces tend to pull one off center; how to remain strong, no matter what shocks come in at the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel.' We never know what lies ahead but staying centered no matter what comes our way is so important. In my mind the way to do that is being anchored in our Higher Source (God).
When life pulls and tugs at me I know where my anchor is grounded and it helps knowing He cares and wants to help. We don't have to weather these storms alone. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Her writing is soothing, enlightening, and full of wisdom and beauty. Some of my favorite quotes: Woman's life today is tending more and more toward the state William James describes so well in the German word, 'Zerrissenheit-torn-to-pieces-hood.'
She cannot live perpetually in 'Zerrissenheit.' She will be shattered into a thousand pieces. On the contrary, she must consciously encourage those pursuits which oppose the centrifugal forces of today. Quiet time alone, I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Her writing is soothing, enlightening, and full of wisdom and beauty. Some of my favorite quotes: Woman's life today is tending more and more toward the state William James describes so well in the German word, 'Zerrissenheit-torn-to-pieces-hood.' She cannot live perpetually in 'Zerrissenheit.'
She will be shattered into a thousand pieces. On the contrary, she must consciously encourage those pursuits which oppose the centrifugal forces of today. Quiet time alone, contemplation, prayer, music, a centering life proceeding from oneself.
It need not be an enormous project or a great work. But it should be something of one's own.' 'It is fear, I think, that makes one cling nostalgically to the last moment or clutch greedily towards the next.
Fear destroys 'the winged life.' .When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.
And it is this lack of fear that makes for the dance. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music-then, and then only, are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.' 'The present is passed over in the race for the future.The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial-the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life.'
I’m afraid I’m going to get into trouble for writing this review because I believe I may be critical of one of the darlings of American Literature, especially a woman who was such a pioneer. For the most part, Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of aviation legend Charles Lindbergh, is a poignant meditation of a woman’s life, her role, her place in society, her demands of motherhood, wifedom, and her needs for solitude and inward contemplation. Lindbergh writes from her own expe I’m afraid I’m going to get into trouble for writing this review because I believe I may be critical of one of the darlings of American Literature, especially a woman who was such a pioneer.
For the most part, Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of aviation legend Charles Lindbergh, is a poignant meditation of a woman’s life, her role, her place in society, her demands of motherhood, wifedom, and her needs for solitude and inward contemplation. Lindbergh writes from her own experience while spending time alone in a cottage on an island far from her mainstay life. Each chapter is the name of a shell on the shore that she collects and that inspires her musings on life.
She also discusses her feelings on approaching middle age. Though the book is well written, and well thought out, I found it at times to be bizarre and disconnected from the real world.
Lindbergh spends time alone on her cottage, near the shore, away from her husband and five children. At times she actually advocates being away from one’s children for as long as a month. Now I know Thoreau did this or something similar when he lived in a tiny log cabin in the woods alone for 2 years and 2 months, but he was not married and had no children. I find this type of experiment quite detached for a mother, and I can’t say if she began this habit when her children were young, but to advise such a thing to me was strange. Lindbergh makes many analogies between seashells and life and though at times I found it poetic and moving, all the pieces didn’t connect for me, and I felt these analogies forced. I also couldn’t help that she was writing from a place of privilege (was she really making her children’s beds when she was born into a privileged life and married to a famed aviator?). Her message is engaging—find time as a woman to cultivate your inner life in your own space, similar to what Virginia Woolf preached in her essay, A Room of One’s Own.
But Woolf didn’t have any children; Lindbergh had five. You don’t go to a cabin and leave your husband when you have five children to tend to. Why would you have five children then?
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Could a middle class woman who has everyday childcare and household responsibilities really do this? Another bizarre clip: she keeps mentioning love affairs, and how if we as women don’t cultivate our inner life, we may be rushing off into a love affair. She had mentioned this several times, peppered throughout her book.
A woman who has normal family responsibilities does not easily rush into a love affair, as far as I know. But then again, who knows? I only have one young child myself. Gift from the Sea is a sermon that’s quite original. As a woman of privilege, Lindbergh could speak this way, but many other middle class women couldn’t live this Thoreauvian life she depicts by the sea. A cottage on the sea, by the way, is probably very expensive too.
Just finished again. How I love this book. I can relate to her emotions in leaving the island to a time in my life when an island rescued me in the same way. I love how she talks about love, change, solitude, community, femininity and freedom. They are the words I would use if I was as eloquent.
Some favorites- “I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patienc Just finished again. How I love this book. I can relate to her emotions in leaving the island to a time in my life when an island rescued me in the same way. I love how she talks about love, change, solitude, community, femininity and freedom.
They are the words I would use if I was as eloquent. Some favorites- “I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.” 'I have found the most exhausting thing in life is being insincere' “No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.” There is nothing more important in life than being honest about who you are and who you are to the world, especially those you claim to love.
She describes my heart on such things perfectly. Now, I have recently found out of the imperfections in her life and marriage but it has no effect on my love for the book. Truth is truth and poetry is poetry. The sea has magic no matter human frailties.
I devoured this book in one day. I love it so much. With all the turmoil in my life I can't overstate how much I related to Anne's search for inner peace.
Its amazing how a housewife and author from the 1950s could speak to me, a modern single girl of 2011. I felt like she was talking to me when she says, 'What a circus act we women perform. We put the trapeze artist to shame.
We run a tight rope daily'. I think the hardest thing in life to achieve is balance. One part of my life seems to always be ruling another. Anne teaches that we can remain at peace in our hearts while the world swirls around us.
I love her messages of finding moments of solitude and not holding back on life- daring to live the fullest life we can. I loved all of her metaphors with the sea and how life should be a simple as a hermit crab finding a shell- finding a perfect home. Our hearts should be at home just as the tide is at home with the sand. I don't feel I can do it justice. It just spoke to me today, and I loved it. Everyone should read it.
Though written in 1955 (I read a 50th anniversary edition copy), this still resonates and deserves to be read alongside feminist nonfiction by Virginia Woolf, May Sarton and Madeline L’Engle. Solitude is essential for women’s creativity, Lindbergh writes, and this little book, written during a beach vacation in Florida, is about striving for balance in a midlife busy with family commitments. Like Joan Anderson (e.g. ), Lindbergh celebrates the pull of the sea and speaks of life, Though written in 1955 (I read a 50th anniversary edition copy), this still resonates and deserves to be read alongside feminist nonfiction by Virginia Woolf, May Sarton and Madeline L’Engle. Solitude is essential for women’s creativity, Lindbergh writes, and this little book, written during a beach vacation in Florida, is about striving for balance in a midlife busy with family commitments.
Like Joan Anderson (e.g. ), Lindbergh celebrates the pull of the sea and speaks of life, and especially marriage, as a fluid thing that ebbs and flows. Divided into short, meditative chapters named after different types of shells, this is a relatable work about the search for a simple, whole, purposeful life. The afterword from 1975 and her daughter Reeve’s introduction from 2005 to how lasting an influence the book has had. Favorite lines: “Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches.
Patience and faith.” “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” “I no longer pull out grey hairs or sweep down cobwebs.” “It is fear, I think, that makes one cling nostalgically to the last moment or clutch greedily toward the next.” My free copy came from The Book Thing of Baltimore. This is a beautifully produced little book of life lessons. It is introduced by one of the author's daughters, who makes a good observation that the style of writing reminds her of the movement of the sea, a calm and gentle one that is, and it is easy to see this comparison. Aimed primarily at women readers, generally speaking it is easily accessible by all. Written on an island in the 1950s, there is a sense of peace and thoughtfulness about the prose. It is not preachy at all, just full of clea This is a beautifully produced little book of life lessons. It is introduced by one of the author's daughters, who makes a good observation that the style of writing reminds her of the movement of the sea, a calm and gentle one that is, and it is easy to see this comparison.
Aimed primarily at women readers, generally speaking it is easily accessible by all. Written on an island in the 1950s, there is a sense of peace and thoughtfulness about the prose.
It is not preachy at all, just full of clear observations and suggestions, guided by different shells that are found on the beach, or given as gifts, each one representing a stage in our lives. Admittedly due to the period in which it was written (way before the women's movement took off in the late 60s and 70s, but some time after the amazing work done by women earlier in the century in the search for equality), some of the views of gender roles make for uncomfortable reading, but the author adds an afterword which comments on the changes she has seen since its original publication, and praises the women who have achieved so much on behalf of others.
It is also interesting, in a way, as a peek into life at the time (jobs, child-rearing, church-going etc) when compared to how we live now. Certainly a book that would be easy to return to, especially if you might need a boost to appreciate yourself and the world around you. This book was chosen by my book club, otherwise I wouldn't have read it.
To be honest, I just couldn't wax philosophical with Anne. All I could think about when Anne was discussing marriage and women's roles was about her personal life and the affairs both she and Charles had.
I'm not judging them, only they know what went on in their marriage, but, at the same time, I didn't find myself inclined to take marriage advice from her. I thought it was strange that she kept quoting Antoine de Saint-Ex This book was chosen by my book club, otherwise I wouldn't have read it. To be honest, I just couldn't wax philosophical with Anne.
All I could think about when Anne was discussing marriage and women's roles was about her personal life and the affairs both she and Charles had. I'm not judging them, only they know what went on in their marriage, but, at the same time, I didn't find myself inclined to take marriage advice from her. I thought it was strange that she kept quoting Antoine de Saint-Exupery throughout the book until I found out that she had an affair with him. Then, her apparent admiration for him made more sense (don't get me wrong-Exupery wrote some amazing things, namely The Little Prince). I think Anne had some thought-provoking points to her musings, but it was overly poetic and also a little depressing for me.
Her continued mentioning of needing to be alone and getting away from everyone gave me the impression of a woman who wanted a different life. In short, I didn't get out of this what I was hoping to. The best part of the book was the imagery of the ocean in the first chapter. 1.5 stars, rounded to 2.
Absolutely love this book. I listen this on tape.It's a quick book but i listened it twice since there is so much wisdom you can reflect on you and your life. Lindberg (the wife of Charles Lindberg), who is not only aviator on her own but also an amazing writer. She wrote this book in 1950s reflecting her life and a life of a woman-how important is to enjoy time of solitude to develop oneself so that you can give back fully as a mother, wife or a friend. She metaphorically uses different kinds o Absolutely love this book. I listen this on tape.It's a quick book but i listened it twice since there is so much wisdom you can reflect on you and your life.
Lindberg (the wife of Charles Lindberg), who is not only aviator on her own but also an amazing writer. She wrote this book in 1950s reflecting her life and a life of a woman-how important is to enjoy time of solitude to develop oneself so that you can give back fully as a mother, wife or a friend.
She metaphorically uses different kinds of shells to compare our lives. She talks about, living a simple, minimal life, self reflection and enjoying quiet and solitude is the way to ones happiness. Even though she wrote this book 6o years ago, it really surprised me how her reflection is still relevant and poignant to this world as we struggle to pursue quiet time for oneself. This is a book you have to read each year as a gift of reflection to yourself. A must book for everyone who is multitasking and zipping away with daily chores and not controlling your own brakes in life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards.
Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, earned her international acclaim. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards. Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, earned her international acclaim. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. War Within and Without, the penultimate installment of her published diaries, received the Christopher Award in 1980. Lindbergh died in 2001 at the age of ninety-four.
Not to be confused with her daughter. “When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand.
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. 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, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.” —.
Contents. Early life Anne Spencer Morrow was born on June 22, 1906 in. Her father was, a partner in, who became and from New Jersey.
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Her mother, was a poet and teacher, active in women's education, who served as acting president of her alma mater. Anne was the second of four children; her siblings were Elisabeth Reeve, Dwight, Jr., and Constance. The children were raised in a Calvinist household that fostered achievement. Every night, Morrow's mother would read to her children for an hour. The children quickly learned to read and write, began reading to themselves, and writing poetry and diaries. Anne would later benefit from that routine, eventually publishing her later diaries to critical acclaim. After graduating from in New York City in 1924, where she was president of the student body, she attended from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928.
She received the Prize, for her essay on women of the 18th century such as, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Literary Prize, for her fictional piece 'Lida Was Beautiful.' Marriage and family Morrow and Lindbergh met on December 21, 1927, in.
Her father, Lindbergh's financial adviser at J. Morgan and Co., invited him to to advance good relations between it and the United States. At the time, Morrow was a shy 21-year-old senior at Smith College. Lindbergh was a courageous aviator whose solo flight across the Atlantic made him a hero of immense proportions. Still, the sight of the boyish aviator, who was staying with the Morrows, tugged at Morrow's heartstrings. She would later write in her diary: “ He is taller than anyone else—you see his head in a moving crowd and you notice his glance, where it turns, as though it were keener, clearer, and brighter than anyone else's, lit with a more intense fire. What could I say to this boy?
Anything I might say would be trivial and superficial, like pink frosting flowers. I felt the whole world before this to be frivolous, superficial, ephemeral. Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh They were married in a private ceremony on May 27, 1929, at the home of her parents in Englewood, New Jersey.
That year, Anne Lindbergh flew solo for the first time, and in 1930, she became the first American woman to earn a first-class. In the 1930s, both together explored and charted air routes between continents. The Lindberghs were the first to fly from Africa to South America and explored polar air routes from North America to Asia and Europe. Their first child, Charles Jr, was born on Anne's 24th birthday, June 22, 1930.
Kidnapping. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Hubbard Medal Anne received numerous honors and awards throughout her life in recognition of her contributions to both literature and aviation. In 1933, she received the U.S. Flag Association Cross of Honor for having taken part in surveying transatlantic air routes.
The following year, she was awarded the by the for having completed 40,000 miles (64,000 km) of exploratory flying with her husband, Charles Lindbergh, a feat that took them to five continents. In 1993, Women in Aerospace presented her with an Aerospace Explorer Award in recognition of her achievements in and contributions to the aerospace field. She was inducted into the (1979), the (1996), the, and the (1999). Her first book, (1935) won one of the: the Most Distinguished General Nonfiction of 1935, voted by the American Booksellers Association.
Her second book, (1938), won the same award in its fourth year after the Nonfiction category had subsumed Biography. She received the for War Within and Without, the last installment of her published diaries. In addition to being the recipient of honorary master's and doctor of letters degrees from her alma mater (1935 and 1970), Anne received honorary degrees from (1939), the (1939), (1976), and (1985). Bibliography. Orlando, Florida: Mariner Books, 1996, First edition 1935. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1990, First edition 1938.
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War Without and Within: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939–1944. Orlando, Florida: Mariner Books, 1995, First edition 1980. Against Wind and Tide. Published posthumously by Anne Morrow Lindbergh's family in 2013, the final volume of diaries and letters spans the 1980s to the early 2000s. References Notes.
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