Fly While You Still Have Wings

Joyce Rupp shares the story of her own grief in the wake of her mother’s death, offering readers both a profile of her mother’s resiliant spirit and a voice of compassion for their own experience of loss. This affectionate profile of her relationship with her mother is also an honest self-examination, as she shares the ways she sometimes failed to listen to, accept and understand her mother in her final years. Each chapter begins with a meditative poem.