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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 ~ 2001 — portrait

Gift from the Sea

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 ~ 2001

The only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom

The Gemstone Line
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The poem
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom,

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