Description - Fly While You Still Have Wings by Joyce Rupp
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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