A Gift From The Sea has been on my nightstand for years. I think I was born with the sea inside of me 😊and her book has been wise and comforting to me for years. Thank you for sharing her wisdom today. I have a collection of shells from around the world in a copper kettle my grandmother used to make candy for her 10 children. Both of these women have had such a great influence on what it is to be a woman. Sandra

Hi Margaret, hope you are feeling good!! Love to all❤ The Lindbergh's had 5 more children. Thank you for sharing!! 💕💕💕💕

After a complex life with 7 decades of stress and tumult; 2 years ago, Divine Providence suddenly & unexpectedly removed ALL of that and put me in a completely different location and circumstance 800 miles away, in which I am now flourishing and enjoying Aging calmly 🙌🙌🙌 Surrounded by beauty, nature, peace, quiet and total freedom of body, mind and spirit! I daily experience sheer joy & gratitude for every blessing! ❤ Truly miraculous ✨

I have read Gift From The Sea many times over many years. I read it to my daughter in hospital when she was dying. It’s so beautiful.

My 8th grade English teacher gifted me this book. I can't say I understood it then. I puzzled why she gave me this book. In my 20s I reread it and realized the compliment of her gift. I loved AML's insightfulness. I became an AML fan and read all her books. I still have them. Thanks for mentioning A Gift From the Sea. I'm going to reread it (and maybe all the others). I'm currently slowly reading Winston Churchill's 6 volume WWII treatise. Fascinating. I bought them in the 60s and am thrilled to finally read them on the cusp of turning 80. Bravo me! ❤ P.S. AML had several more children.

I’m growing old thankfully. I’m so thankful for another day ❤

@sixtyandme

13 күн бұрын

Love that!

I have this book, given to me by a beloved friend. We were in our 30s then and now we’re over 60. I shall pick this book up again. ❤

I have always been a reader and a book lover. While going through my library and trying to decide what books would make the moving box to my smaller home, A Gift from the Sea was a MUST save. I have found that no matter my age or current concerns in my life, this book brings comfort. I believe it is time to pull it off the shelf and read it again. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. 💕. Thanks for the time you spend sharing such good ideas and helping to keep us looking toward the bright side of life. Elaine

I’m just catching up with some of your recent videos, Margaret. Gift From the Sea was published in 1955. I remember the book always being on my mother’s bookshelves when I was growing up, and I still have her 1955 copy and have read it numerous times. Have also read several books of Anne’s poetry plus a biography and autobiography. The Lindberghs went on to have five more children after the death of baby Charles, Jr. One of the daughters, Reeve, is now 78 and a very good writer. I have read two of her books, both of which I enjoyed. God bless you; you are looking well! 😊

Have always loved this book, even as a younger woman. Have gifted it often.

Aging with compassion, as much for yourself as others ❤

Sage-ing while Age-ing by Shirley Maclaine is another really good book for women our age, thanks for the video. Peace

I have had the “Gift of the Sea” for maybe 40 years.. reread so often

i love her book & often give it as a mother's day gift to friends who are becoming empty nesters i re-read it every couple of years. it's so lovely there is an audiobook version out there with a wonderful narrator

Gift from the Sea and Jonathan Livingston Seagull are the two books I cherish and re-read. Mrs. Lindbergh wrote Gift not 50 miles from where I currently live. I know that place, and I can see how it would have made an impression on her and her writings.

I read the book probably 20 years ago. Maybe when I was in my 40s and raised a child that was quite handicapped. I found it very interesting. I think it would probably be more meaningful now as I’ve lived life.

Ty. A lovely reminder to be my own best advocate against ageism, and for us all to be thankful for our choices, our abilities to own our own life, and to foster our skills to find balance between solitude and healthy relationships. I am on the hunt to find that book. Trying to nurture back my love of reading...it somehow got lost along the way. I used to love to read??? Although I strive for simplicity, I have trouble keeping my writings simple. I just love words, as you can tell. (; I want to age with a healthy mind, a healthy body, good kind-hearted people around me, and a healthy perspective about each day I am given. I want to thrive, not just survive. Stay well.

This book was meaningful to me as a young woman in my 30's and equally meaningful to me now in my 70's,

In her time Grace was the ability to live with forgiveness and the belief in redemption for yourself and others not the idea of social interaction perfection. I hope that sheds a little light on her wisdom of the meaning of grace❤

Thanks for the tip. ❤

One of my favorite books. Thanks for the reminder I need to read it again this summer. Live your chanel.

Margaret Please, Please, Please,, read the travel journals of "Miss Isabelle Bird." My personal favorite, is "The English Woman in America." Her accounting --of her travels as a young English single woman, published by Lakeside Classics is a companion book to cary at all times . ((NOT to be confused with another woman who wrote a book with the title 'almost the same))) I have read this book sooo many times, and it is SOOO inspiring! Her word selection, descriptions, and travel journeys in the mid 19th century across the globe by herself are INSPIRING, gripping, humorous, and all are the true stories of her life of travel. I promise you,,, you won't be able to put this book, nor any of her writings, down!

@sixtyandme

10 күн бұрын

Thank you for this recommendation - will check it out!!!

I read Gift from the Sea many years ago, a cool book but I have passed it on.

I am reading this book again at the age of 65. My first read was as a busy, young mother and it touched me deeply. I look forward to reading it as a mature woman now. I highly recommend the book! Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Oh Yes...I've read all the books by both Mr. & Mrs. Lindberg. What wonderful insights come through in their writings.

Have read A Gift from the Sea many times and have gifted it to friends at difficult times as it was gifted to me. Thanks for reminding me. Have a great week, dear friend!

@sixtyandme

13 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

The meaning of grace has changed over the years, I think.

I read A Gift from the Sea several times in my 20's, I believe once for an American literature class and it is now sitting on my reread shelf. Right now I'm actively retiring (July 1!) and therefore combining my professional library with my personal library in a well-defined storage wall. I chose to put my very old paper copy of A Gift from the Sea on my time-will-tell shelf for books to be reread, although I will probably repurchase it for my e-reader when I choose to read it again since that device makes it so easy to pack my complete library.❤

I'm looking forward to this. I love her book Gift of the Sea.

@sixtyandme

20 күн бұрын

Me too, thank you for sharing

I am trying to age gracefully. I love the words, gracious, and graceful. They conjure up images of gentleness elegance, and an inside peacefulness, with one's self. Authenticity.

Had never heard of this book. So looked it up. Although I expect everyone heard of Lindbergh. "Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906 in New Jersey. She married aviator Charles Lindbergh, and became a renowned aviator in her own right. In 1932, the couple's first baby, Charles, was kidnapped and found dead."

Thank you for this topic. I have never heard of this book, A Gigt from the Sea, but a must read. Look out City Library here I come for summer reading 📚 😎 ⛱️ ☔️ Truly, we are who we are by the complexities in our personal life. A great gift is freedom of choice. Smiles and hugs to all !!! You are so special,all of you! Margaret, you are so dear to our hearts 💕 💞 ♥️

@sixtyandme

13 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you Margaret. I read alot of books and have yet to read A Gift from the Sea or any other of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's books so I look forward to that. Thank you for your message today.

I've had gift from the sea for years. One of my favorites

I read this book many years ago and really enjoyed it. Your video makes me think it is time to read it again. Thank you.😊

I just learned that I am ancient. LOL. I was reading from the book of Job in the Biblen Job 12 verses 7-12. With ancient "comes wisdom and in length of days understanding." 🤔 I have much to offer, even in my seventh decade. Love and hugs to all around the world.❤❤❤

Thank you Margaret. I will try to read this book.

I want to age as healthy as I can be.

Love your outfit and background ❤ sounds like an interesting book!

Aging adventurously 🥰

Worth reading, IMO, is Iris Murdoch (who also led an interesting life). She did write "The Sea, the Sea", but "The Nice and the Good" clarifies that misconception many have that being "nice" means the person is "good". Very far from the truth.

Thanks for this. I am curious if you know much about what happened to Ms.Morrow in her marriage and husband Charles's shocking double life.

@sixtyandme

13 күн бұрын

I didn’t know about her husband’s double life, and in fact, I didn’t focus on him at all when I was reading her book. It was a focus on her as a woman and a mom found. There were many useful observations she made many women are community of men leading lives, and her story is very relatable to a lot of people.

@DigitalLazarus

13 күн бұрын

@@sixtyandmeI can appreciate this. And yet as a pragmatist who survived deep betrayal, the irony is not spared considering: Would we even read Ms Morrow's work if she was not attached to Lindbergh? The knowledge of her history alas renders of hypocrisy and I cannot reconcile her tolerating Charles' behaviour and staying with him, but that's just me. Again, thanks for all you share here,

@susanhartley5732

13 күн бұрын

​@@DigitalLazarus Betrayal is never easy. You're assuming Anne knew. I don't know of any basis for that. Online sounds like his other relationships (at least 3) were kept very secret even though he fathered 7 children in them. I do believe she was destined to be a writer. She was an ambassador's daughter, well educated and seemingly destined for a special life. Her sensibilities and insights don't come from a husband's notoriety or a highly publicized kidnapping and murder. That's Anne talking to you in her books. Yes, her status as Lindbergh's wife was definitely a boost but I think Anne would have been a writer sans Charles.

@DigitalLazarus

13 күн бұрын

@@susanhartley5732 Totally and I appreciate dialogue. According to her daughter, Reeve Tripp, Anne did indeed suspect. It's simply an understanding after the fact. I am sure when her works were published they had impact (and continue to do so). However, personally, I cannot unlearn her and Charles's truth and, alas, it parallels decades of my own betrayal and ignorance and therefore rings both false and flat to me. Each to the dictates I suppose. For inspiration I turn to the late great Canadian author *Alice Munro.* She blows me away. 🥰

@jennywren8937

13 күн бұрын

​@@DigitalLazarusTrue he was a scoundrel, but that possibly made her an even more remarkable woman. I think it would have been pretty impossible for Charles to actually keep his double life secret. Either way, his behaviour wouldn't detract from her ability as a writer, and it could be said that they had more in common than they might have had with alternative partners. Given that they both had independent lives, his wavering would have had less impact than it might have done.

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Learn to live in the moment.

Aging peacefully

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. Interesting funny and serious

i would love to age wisely

Thank you for the remembrance of the book. Ann had her heart broken in several ways. Charles Lindberg, had a family with a German woman he met while spending time with Hitler, of whom he was a big fan. He believed in Euthanasia like Hitler. Ann, was not buried with Charles. He is buried on one of Hawaiian islands. Not sure about Ann. Can you imagine how she must of felt when she found out about her faithless husband? Ann seems to have kept her soft graceful attitude no matter her struggles. I believe she was a Christian. it has been about 40 years ago, maybe it is time to re-purchase her book.😊

@susanhartley5732

13 күн бұрын

Anne and Charles lived in Europe pre WWII. They were cozy with Hitler as were so many. Currentky reading Churchill's The Gathering Storm, it's shocking how many British and English leaders cozied up to Hitler. The Lindberghs returned to the U S. In 1939 and Charles was definitely a part of the large isolationist faction against war with Germany After Pearl Harbor and Germany declaring war on the U S. Charles was an ardent supporter of the Allies throughout the war and after. My online source says that's when he started the first of the many child (7) bearing affairs. Given how she was so sensitive and devoted, I imagine Anne was crushed when she found out. She died at her son's in Vermont. Her ashes were scattered there. One of her books tries to justify and explain Charles' pre WWII positions.

Yes she had more children

@jmsl_910

14 күн бұрын

i think 5!!

@wilmafallon8712

14 күн бұрын

Hi Mgt , you are looking great . The book sounds very interesting I’m sure I would get a lot from it . At the moment I’m mostly living quietly in solitude . I would give One Day AT A Time IN AL ANON . For family and friends of alcoholics . It’s a book for everyone living with it or not , in my opinion. Going to the charity shop to drop off regularly…. getting closer to my goals . 🙂 Enjoying your video’s. Thank you .

@cynthiahurlburt2819

13 күн бұрын

Thank you for mentioning , One Day at a Time. It was a life saver during the intense time caring for an alcoholic sibling. I didnot go crazy😅 🙏 ❤

@susanhartley5732

13 күн бұрын

One Day at a Time saved my life during troubling times. Thanks for mentioning it. I'll check it out again too. Still on my nightstand. ❤

@susanhartley5732

13 күн бұрын

​​@@jmsl_910 Yes, 5 more children!