This is a book that is honest about Elaine and Vic’s life together, honest about the cancer that took
his life and their struggle dealing with chemotherapy and interventions, and honest about grief. That’s what we want from a memoir when matters of life
and death are involved. We don’t want sugar. Sugar doesn’t give us real hope.
Sugar melts away when tears begin to fall. We want truth because we know that
one day we will face what they have gone through, and we want to know how to act.
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Dear Mark,
ReplyDeleteThank you for this beautiful review of Leaning into Love. I just wrote a comment but it disappeared when I posted it, so in case this is a repeat, please delete it.
I especially loved your thoughts about the balance of Physical, Spiritual, and Heart. All essential and all askew after someone we love dies. So, bit by bit, we build a new structure. This reminds me of the cairn my sons and I built where Vic’s ashes are buried. It’ s large and looks precarious, but it’s still standing strong 6 ½ years later. So am I.
Thank you again for your generous and loving reading of Leaning into Love.
With gratitude,
Elaine
Thank you, Elaine, for sitting down in the midst of your grief and doing the hard work of finding the right words so that we could share your journey and learn more about our own.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful review and a new appreciation for the balance to this book. Before and after; heart-head-hands; love and loss.
ReplyDeleteJill, I also thank you and your staff for helping Elaine's book get published so that we could read it and be moved.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to thank you, Mark, for this thorough, touching and thoughtful review of what I also consider to be an amazing book. And my thanks to Elaine for writing it, too. ♥
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Marty.
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