It was particularly interesting to read this because balance and having it all are such huge buzzy topics today, and this book, written half a century ago, deals with the same sorts of themes (but in a much less click-bait-y type of way). That’s a podcast, people! I’m a little embarrassed it took me 30 years to get around to it.
Listening on double speed, that made for just over an hour of listening.
It was three parts, with each part running only about 45 minutes. Just before I went to NYC, I downloaded the audio version and was surprised to see how short it was. But somehow I’d just never gotten around to it, so when it got recommended in the latest round of Tell Me What to Read, it was an obvious choice. Gift from the Sea is one of those books that I have heard about my entire life and meant to read for.ever. Over promise, under deliver, or something like that. She does this without the overtones of preaching, but herself as a seeker, echoing - only clearer and stronger - our own small still voice.Gift from the Sea was my July pick for Tell Me What to Read, so predictably I’m writing about it here five seconds before August comes to an end. With radiant lucidity she makes visible again the values of the inner life, without which there is no true fulfillment. In a blend of complete sincerity and delicacy, so uniquely her own, Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares with the reader her awareness of the many frustrating elements we face today: the restlessness, the unending pressures and demands, the denial of leisure and silence, the threat to inner peace and integration, the uneasy balance of the opposites, man and woman.
And the shells become symbols here for the various aspects of life she is contemplating. As the sea tosses up its gifts - shells rare and perfect - so the mind, left to its ponderings, brings up its own treasures of the deep. The setting of her book is the sea shore the time, a brief vacation which had lifted her from the distractions of everyday existence into the sphere of meditation. "Anne Morrow Lindbergh's reflections on a woman's life were matured in active years of family living and stimulated by conversations with men and women who experience the same problems and feel the same need for assessing the true values of life.
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