This was my second time reading Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Lindbergh's book was not meant to reach so many, but (over 50 years later) it continues to spread. She was a woman ahead of her time, not only in accomplishments, but also in introspection. She was self-aware in a way that many women of her time didn't admit. She questioned the development in her life in a way that was not popular in 1950's American culture.
It amazes me that some people can reach out and feed generations who live more than half a century after them. The pieces of our lives that she draws in her writing are as relevant today as they were then. I can only imagine they will continue to be relevant, because though times change-- we are still human beings. And though those who have gone before us have figured out their path, the rest of us are still cutting ours. We speak about these topics as if they were new, but reading authors such as Virginia Woolf and Anne Lindbergh, show us that they are just new to us... not the human race.
This is a short, contemplative, thought-provoking, relevant, important book for women. It takes only a few hours to read (it is gift book size and only 120 pages at that). A wonderful book for a weekend, or a short trip. It will refresh you, inspire you, challenge you.
Five Coconuts
(This book filled task 5.1 of the Summer Book Challenge)
xo,
The Coconut Librarian
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