Lift takes its name from hang gliding, a pursuit that requires flying directly into rough air, because turbulence saves a glider from “sinking out.” For Corrigan, this wisdom becomes a metaphor for all of life’s most meaningful endeavors, particularly the great flight that is parenting.
Corrigan serves it up straight—how mundanely and fiercely her children have been loved, how close most lives occasionally come to disaster, and how often we fall short as mothers and fathers. Lift is for everyone who has been caught off guard by the pace and vulnerability of raising children, to remind us that our work is important and our time limited.
This 84 page letter was a delight to read and has me wanting to go back to writing yearly letters to my kids even though they are young adults now. I quit writing after their first year of college. The letters are in their baby books and I do believe my daughter has read some of them.
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Is it wrong to say that this one looks extra tempting since I might have trouble meeting my yearly book goal? ;)
I have this one on my Wishlist. I love the idea of writing letters.
My daughter is 3 and I keep saying write her a letter for when she goes 18.
These books are always touching, thanks for the reminder that I want to read it.
I think you should go write a letter to your adult daughter now. Remember the days before emails, sigh :-) what a miss
That is a wonderful idea! Mine are too old to start the tradition now but I could always begin and do it for their adult years right?
I always intended to do this, and never got around to it. but , it's never too late.
Writing letters to your children is such a great idea. It is something they will treasure in later years. Interesting "book".
Sounds interesting.
I wrote letters to my children for the last 10 years, for much different reasons of course, but am still delighted by this story. Great review!
I just finished reading this book as well and thought the juxtaposition of the three different families was quite poignant as well.
I haven't written letters to my children, but I do try to scrapbook family memories and include personal sentiments along with the photos.
I've been writing my son letters every year on his birthday. They are all in a mother's journal that I have been keeping. I hope he'll enjoy reading them when he is older (he's 16 now).
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