Apparently it's Kelly Corrigan day. After I read (and fell in love with) The Middle Place, I immediately added Lift to my library queue. I picked it up yesterday and read it in about an hour (it's a tiny little book).Lift is written as a letter to Corrigan's daughters, Georgia and Claire, for them to read when they are older. It is a beautiful testament to motherhood. I had to try not to get too emotional while reading this on the subway. The same characters from The Middle Place pop up here and there, but the focus is really on the small things that make Corrigan love her daughters completely and unconditionally. It's not all the great stuff. There are stories of the girls acting up and their mother feeling guilty over the way she behaved. There's a tragic story of loss. What really struck me was Corrigan writing about how the girls won't remember most of what they're living now. They won't remember their mother as she is now. So I've decided to steal her idea and write to my (eventual) kids so they'll remember the small things too.
It's a beautiful little book that is a great reminder of the importance of our families and our mothers and our kids, real or unconceived, and the bond between them that can't be broken, not by age or even death. I may have to buy it for a few mothers.
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