Thoughts on Parenthood and the Great Adventure by Kelly Corrigan
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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Bestselling author of The Middle Place and Glitter and Glue, Kelly Corrigan shares her thoughts on motherhoood and the great adventure.
Glitter and Glue is a new memoir that examines the bond-sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine-between mothers and daughters.
When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as "Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue." This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom-with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism-would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly's life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler's checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting.
But it didn't turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That's how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved in. And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother's voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. Every day she spent with the Tanner kids was a day spent reconsidering her relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands like a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral.
This is a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly it's about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time.
I laughed, I cried, my heart breaking and bursting with love all at once. Thank you, Kelly!
Wow. So glad to see this group of women listening to this amazing woman. I now know I’m not the only one w a girl crush on Kelly Corrigan
I have watched this many times, now it means even more to me. To value those little things of being a mother, all the frustrations we go through are so amazing. See I lost my son May 12, 2014 and would give anything to have those times back! Thanks!!
Thank you for this. I will never know this part of life. It just wasn't my story. I am grateful for those who share it, for just a few precious moments of vicariousness, I can only imagine what being a mom actually is.
oh my goodness. As I sitter here and muddle through the words to find how to express how grateful I am to you for reminding me what my life is all about, I can't help but just to say, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Kelly -
Your words are so profound - thank you for articulating the thoughts and feelings we all have (or in my case had). You are such a joy ! And just you wait until the
grand-babies arrive ! I cannot even begin to tell you the untapped love that you have -
there will be enough words to fill several books!!
Another essay to make me cry…. beautiful. Thanks for reminding me to enjoy it all.
Thank you Kelly. Always introspective, laughing through the tears at the revealing honesty. I appreciate your gift to remind us of all we have to be thankful for.
Such truth Kelly unlike anyone else has been able to put in words and on paper !!
Looking forward to the reading in my hometown !
You captured the essence of who we are as parents, as mothers. Thank you! I love this video and can't wait to read your book.
I had the honor of spending a day with this lovely woman and her family and I want to tell you that she is the real deal. The best side of my life behind the camera. Enjoy. HH
Kelly, you've done it again. I don't know how you topped "Transcending", but you did. I cannot WAIT to read "Glitter and Glue".
Only you can make me laugh and cry with the same sentence.
So Awesome. . .shared on may forums. Thank you Kelly for sharing your "gift" with us!
Wow! It makes me wonder if I really appreciate allI have. It reminds me to slow down and enjoy life. It's not easy.
So excited to read your new book…you are so gettable. Thank you thank you!!
Wow, that was wonderful.
Sounds so like you, Anne!
So true
i'm going to amazon right now.
Yes but we don't impose our discoveries on everyone else. It is not our place to impose our thoughts or feelings or discoveries on anyone else. It is supposed to be a world of freedom and let them do their own discoveries and decisions. Freedom is supposed to be and compassion is supposed to be ALL ENCOMPASSING! STOP and think about how this message is coming with barbs and evil impositions on others who are struggling ... struggling for the ability to put meals on the table while dismiss-ers are saying, helping others is threatening my perfect life. Boo on that and shame on that and start expanding beyond our own little little world that we try to tell others is oh so big.