Moving Miss Peggy: A Story of Dementia, Courage and Consolation
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In Moving Miss Peggy we also meet the story of siblings, grown apart over years, with nothing in common except for a mother who in wrestling through her own challenges gave each grown child the gift of a deeply felt reunion, long years after any of them suspected there was a possibility of reconciling grace.
Written with grace, candor and bittersweet humor, Moving Miss Peggy tells a story that many others are now facing, bringing strength and wisdom and inspiration to readers. We learn (and learn again) along with Miss Peggy and her family some of the very basics for living life well.
Robert Benson
Robert Benson is an acclaimed author and retreat leader who writes and speaks on the art and the practicality of living a more contemplative and prayerful life in the modern world. He has published more than a dozen books about the search for and the discovery of the sacred in the midst of our everyday lives. His works include Between the Dreaming and the Coming True, Living Prayer and Digging In: Tending to Life in Your Own Backyard. His writing ranges from books on prayer and spirituality to travel and gardening to baseball and the Rule of St. Benedict. Benson's writing has been critically acclaimed in publications from the New York Times to USA Today toSpirituality & Health to the American Benedictine Review. He is an alumnus of The Academy for Spiritual Formation, a member of The Friends of Silence & of the Poor, and was recently named a Living Spiritual Teacher by Spirituality&Practice.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Iread this little book early this past Sunday morning. The copy of it was acquired on Saturday afternoon at ALA 2013. Mr. Benson was there in person to sign copies of it. I had never read any of his works before. I may send him an email now that I have read the book. This is a very well-written and poignant story. It is written in the third person for the most part. It is not written from the point of view of the author, although he is obviously a character in the story. Sometimes it is addressed as "we" (the four siblings who must decide what to do with their mother), and then each sibling or spouse is named when necessary. Miss Peggy, as she is most often called, married young and gave birth to five children over the next 16 years. After her husband passed away fairly young (their youngest child was still just 16 years old), she led a rather independent life working and enjoying living. However, in the last couple of years, some things haven't been quite right with her, and her living children gather to decide what must be done for her, and who will do what things for Miss Peggy.She is experiencing dementia, and it is getting worse. She is not quite the self she used to be. She has already had to give up driving. It is finally decided that she must be moved into an assisted living facility, and her large townhouse must be sold The siblings set out to find just the perfect location for their mother. In the meantime, they are trying to carefully dissolve their mother's household and belongings. Various pieces of furniture goes to various grandchildren who are moving out on their own, for instance. It is a beautiful story, and it really resonated with me. I have experienced some of these things recently with my grandpa recently moving into assisted living. I inherited some very special furniture. . . and this past Sunday, my grandpa was able to share again the story of how he and grandma acquired that furniture more than sixty years ago (they were moving, and many of their possessions were lost in a flood. This was some of the new furniture that they were able to get at cost.) Grandma died seven years ago now, but she was experiencing dementia at the time.I highly recommend this book.