Collect Gift From The Sea Curated By Anne Morrow Lindbergh Issued As Textbook

this inimitable, beloved classicgraceful, lucid and lyricalAnne 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, Lindberghs musings on the shape of a womans 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 timesaving 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, bestselling work when it was originally published in, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers.
With a new introduction by Lindberghs daughter Reeve, this fiftiethanniversary 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 Lindberghs life, She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island, After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in, 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.
This was a great little memoir to read! With onlypages, 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,

Great read! 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, I opened it. The signature inside was my wife's grandmother's, What looks to be a first edition from,

! Life must have been so simple then, The good old ILikeIke days, after the World war and before the Vietnam war, I started to read. At first, it seemed similar to Waldenall about simplicity, only in this case a welltodo suburbanite woman on an unnamed beach vs.
a middleaged man slash pencil maker on a pond named Walden,

On p.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 untilp. 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, "

Wow. 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 inwardseeking, men outward, for instance andcent, selfhelp philosophizing,'s chickbook 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, after I thought the one I finished yesterday was the last, Leaving the problem of what to read tomorrow, The first of.

Eh. Maybe something else short, like the back of a cereal box, Something deep, like LIFE. This book is a collection of essays by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, published first in, 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 seashells 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 beachliving ones pride, ones false ambitions, ones mask, ones armor'.






Oof, Never thought I'd have a least favorite book, but here we are,

What this book is about: A privileged white woman had the luxury of a twoweek solitary vacation beachside, who then proceeded to come up with thispaged overlong rambling essay of random ruminations on her own life which she then used to make inappropriate overgeneralizations to womankind, sprinkled with wisesounding life advice.


What is in this book: "America" being used to specifically mean just the United States, Random quotes from other philosophers or famous people, The word "one" being overused to a criminal amount, A sprinkling of religious/ Puritan beliefs to denote moral high ground, Generalization of the American women and their values and goals in life, Inappropriate comparison between various beach shells to different aspects of life,

What is not in this book: Any sort of gifts from the sea, Any interesting stories. Any humility.

I came to know and read this book thanks to a book group I am part of, and I look forward to discussing it.
I feel accomplished that I finished the book, as it lies outside of my usual reading material and I believe there was one tidbit that I genuinely found interesting.
But I will never read anything like this again, .