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Lift (2009)

por Kelly Corrigan

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No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us.

Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan's Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising children.

Lift takes its name from hang gliding, a pursuit that requires flying directly into rough air, because turbulence saves a glider from "sinking out." For Corrigan, this wisdom??that to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages??becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors, particularly the great flight that is parenting.

Corrigan serves it up straight??how mundanely and fiercely her children have been loved, how close most lives occasionally come to disaster, and how often we fall short as mothers and fathers. Lift is for everyone who has been caught off guard by the pace and vulnerability of raising children, to remind us that our work is important and our time limited.

Like Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea, Lift is a meditation on the complexities of a woman's life, and like Corrigan's memoir, The Middle Place, Lift is boisterous and generous, a book readers can't wait to sh… (mais)

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Meh. A few good thoughts, but they're lost in the not-great.

There's a decent amount of profanity for such a short book (and especially one that's supposed to be a letter to children), including the f-bomb. The names of God and Jesus are misused.

And the author holds far-left political and moral views that I don't relate to. ( )
  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |
Corrigan succinctly and articulately captures the essence of motherhood, in all of its stunning beauty and adrenailine-raising terror. ( )
  mbellucci | Apr 10, 2021 |
Short and sweet :) ( )
  Bertha_ | Jun 5, 2020 |
Corrigan writes a letter to her two young daughters. She includes stories about a friend's son who died in a car accident, a health scare with one of her daughters, quiet moments at home with her kids, and her own struggles with parenting and patience. It's short and sweet.

“But the smell of the hospital, the sting of those overhead lights in the night, the snippets of conversation I’d overheard stayed with me and marked the beginning of how I came to know what a bold and dangerous thing parenthood is.”

“So girls, will you please believe me when I tell you that I love you enough to take in the full reality of your life? That I can understand the things you think I can’t and I can see and know and embrace every bit of you, full frame, no cropping?” ( )
  bookworm12 | Apr 9, 2019 |
I'd be kind of mortified if my mother wrote this. I don't want to know the details of my mother's breast feeding or doctor looking at my vagina, nevermind the entire world knowing.

She's a fine writer and story teller, but just.. no. ( )
  earthforms | Feb 2, 2014 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:

No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us.

Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan's Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising children.

Lift takes its name from hang gliding, a pursuit that requires flying directly into rough air, because turbulence saves a glider from "sinking out." For Corrigan, this wisdom??that to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages??becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors, particularly the great flight that is parenting.

Corrigan serves it up straight??how mundanely and fiercely her children have been loved, how close most lives occasionally come to disaster, and how often we fall short as mothers and fathers. Lift is for everyone who has been caught off guard by the pace and vulnerability of raising children, to remind us that our work is important and our time limited.

Like Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea, Lift is a meditation on the complexities of a woman's life, and like Corrigan's memoir, The Middle Place, Lift is boisterous and generous, a book readers can't wait to sh

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