Author
Reeve Lindbergh led a program at Wisdom House on Saturday, May 10m, in which she remembered her mother, famed aviator and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Reeve led a humorous, tender and insightful conversation with the 50 participants, many of whom shared their recollections of the Lindbergh family and the meaning of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's books in their lives. (
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Reeve's new book,
Forward from Here, Leaving Middle Age--and Other Unexpected Adventures, promises to be every bit as engaging as her previous memoirs.
Here is a synopsis from the Simon & Schuster website:
In her funny and wistful new book, Reeve Lindbergh contemplates entering a new stage in life, turning sixty, the period her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once described as "the youth of old age." It is a time of life, she writes, that produces some unexpected surprises. Age brings loss, but also love; disaster, but also delight. The second-graders Reeve taught many years ago are now middle-aged; her own children grow, marry, have children themselves. "Time flies," she observes, "but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too." A milestone birthday is also an opportunity to take stock of oneself, although such self-reflection may lead to nothing more than the realization, as Reeve puts it, "that I just seem to continue being me, the same person I was at twelve and at fifty." At sixty, as she observes, "all I really can do with the rest of my life is to...feel all of it, every bit of it, as much as I can for as long as I can." (
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