{"product_id":"9781933495842","title":"Fly While You Still Have Wings : And Other Lessons My Resilient Mother Taught Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ave Maria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48262237847787,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":31.03,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781933495842-1.jpg?v=1781712566","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781933495842","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}