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Fly While You Still Have Wings - And Other Lessons My Resilient Mother Taught Me (Paperback)
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Fly While You Still Have Wings - And Other Lessons My Resilient Mother Taught Me (Paperback)
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Loot Price R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
You Save R77 (17%)
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In this heartfelt memoir about her mother Hilda's final years,
Joyce Rupp shares the lessons her mother taught her, especially to
"fly while you still have wings." As a poor farmer's wife and the
mother of eight living on rented land in Maryhill, Iowa, Hilda
lived a life with hard labor and constant responsibility-from
milking cows and raising chickens to keeping the farm's financial
ledger. Rupp shows how the difficulties of her mother's early years
and family life, including the loss of a twenty-three-year-old son,
forged a resilience that guided her through the illnesses and
losses she faced later on. This affectionate profile of their
relationship is, at the same time, an honest self-examination as
Rupp shares the ways she failed to listen to, accept, and
understand her mother in her final years. Rupp begins each chapter
with a meditative poem that captures the essence of each stage in
the journey. Her unfailing candor and profound faith illumine this
story of a mother and daughter with a universal spirit of hope,
reconciliation, and peace. Readers who care for the elderly will
identify with the joys and sorrows that Rupp experienced. Likewise,
those who are grieving for a parent will find an open and sensitive
portrayal of the conflicting emotions that arise in the process of
letting go. Anyone approaching their elder years will discover a
model of how to enter the aging process with dignity and honesty
that accepts the
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