Love & Let Go: Reflections, Confessions, Encouragements, and a Few Cautionary Forewarnings from a Father to a Daughter

by Peter O'Brien

Overview

What are the right words to use when someone we love leaves home for school, a new job, or for extended travel? How to compress so many memories, feelings, and emotions? When do words of advice, counsel, or wisdom work best? Love & Let Go sets out to achieve this impossible task—and succeeds! The author’s daughter is about to leave home to continue her education. In thirty-five brief chapters, he offers reflections, encouragements, words of love and support, and more. This book is a totally honest, intimate, and wonderfully literary reflection of the author’s own experiences and responses. It can be read privately, read aloud between parent and child, or shared with friends...or just to appreciate lifelong familial bonds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771616065
Publisher:	Mosaic Press
Publication date:	11/25/2022
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Peter O’Brien is the author or editor of eight previous books, including Cleopatra at the Breakfast Table: Why I Studied Latin With My Teenager and How I Discovered the Daughterland and A Perfect Offering: Personal Stories of Trauma and Transformation (Mosaic Press, 2020). His writing skills and unique perspectives have been widely praised.

Table of Contents

Preface xvii

Beginnings and Endings 1

A Daughter-Shaped Space 3

Presence and Absence 5

Your Natural Talents 7

The Single Smile Effect 9

I Believe! 12

What's the Difference? 14

The Child is Mother of the Woman 16

Weorc, Wyrk, Work 19

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually 21

Learn How To Fight 23

Failure and Regret and Bravery 26

Remembrance of Things Past 28

Voices, Voices Everywhere 30

A Multitude of Truths 32

Be Strong 34

Judge For Yourself 37

Green and Dying 39

Beauty is Skin-Deep and Soul-Deep 41

The Wonderful in the Common 43

Focus! 45

I Am, Therefore I Think 47

It Ain't That Serious 49

All Opinion is Local 51

Sex 53

Be True to What? 55

P P & F 57

Words Made Flesh 59

No, You Don't Have to Be Negative 61

Jealousy (Good and Bad) 63

Everything is … Pandemically Speaking … Relative 65

Sincerely, and Technologically, Yours 67

Make It Up As You Go Along 70

All Advice is Useless 72

Acknowledgements 75

Citation and Illustration References 77

Index 79