Gift from the Sea is a book that enacts its own prescription … which is my attempt to sum up how this book about the difficulty, but also the inestimable value, of quiet meditation prompts its readers (or this reader, anyway) to just such inward contemplation. Sie veröffentlichte insgesamt 13 Bücher, darunter der 1955 erschienene Lebensratgeber und Bestseller Gift from the sea (Muscheln in meiner Hand), der eine Gesamtauflage von über eine Million Exemplaren erzielte. In Gift from the Sea, she spends a few days away from her family in a beach house near the sea and this book is her musings on the different stages in the lives of women, with really beautiful thoughts about marriage, aging, mothering, solitude and happiness.

A sensitive, tensile, original mind probes delicately into questions of balance and relationship in the world today. Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. Or a person just starting out in life, maybe in a dorm somewhere, or maybe someone young who has just graduated college. It involves not only family demands, but community demands, national demands, international demands on the good citizen, through social and cultural pressures, through newspapers, magazines, radio programs, political drives, charitable appeals, and so on. The first two shells she finds symbolize the importance of simple living and solitude for gaining understanding and inner peace.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. This little book is extraordinary in its content and brilliant in its discreet size to carry in your handbag! 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. 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. An emotional read, a story of one woman in Nigeria and her extended family, where personal tragedy unfolds against the backdrop of turbulent 1980’s Nigeria.

Our grandmothers, and even—with some scrambling—our mothers, lived in a circle small enough to let them implement in action most of the impulses of their hearts and minds. This also occurs because partners come to see each other less as individuals and more in terms of their roles as providers or parents. When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. Comments that contribute civilly and constructively to discussion of the topics raised on this blog, from any point of view, are welcome. And I personally am always a bit wary of advice to accept things they way they are now, even as I recognize that taking “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” as one’s motto is likely not the route to contentment for us any more than for Ulysses.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family.

Gift from the Sea is one of those books that I have heard about my entire life and meant to read for. Spine of jacket is only lightly sunned, and shows rubbing at edges, as well as chips with some loss of around 1/2 cm or so, and a small closed tear or two of about 1cm. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.

When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. This process serves as a metaphor for the importance of simplicity and space in providing a context for beauty and meaning. Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day–like writing a poem or saying a prayer.