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Nov 08, 2006
Appropriate because it was a future dream.
1 of 1 found this helpful This book is a beautiful TRUE story of the writers adversity in growing up under difficult circumstances. The family literally existed on the streets;
sometimes with nothing but a cardboard box for a roof; very little, if any food but they kept their dignity at all times. The parents pushed the children to obtain an education.
The father was a gambler but he gave the gift of a dream to his daughter of one day having "A Glass Castle". The mother was mentally challenged but she was an artist of sorts and taught her children to always look inward and be "free" and express yourself.
The writer was going to a fancy party one night and she looked out the car window at a red light and there was her mother going through trash cans and pushing her cart with her meager belongings. She was so embarrassed that her mother would see her and call to her, and her friends would know, that she slid down and drove away. Later she offered her mother a beautiful place to live and all the conveniences and an easy life, but the mother chose to live on the streets because to her this kind of life would be as a prison and she would not be free.
I bought this book because I think it is a beautiful story, it breaks your heart, but helps you to understand that material wealth is not always what people need in their life to be content. Even being mentally challenged, the mother was forever trying to give her family the gift of freedom. It was not really a story against the structure of establishment and everyday rules..........but a way of life to live free and still have a big dream.
I thought at first the mother and father were so selfish to make their children live the way they had to live.....but in reading the whole story you see the special gifts the parents were giving to the children.
It is an awesome story. It makes you look around at your surroundings and appreciate what you have but also to look inward and see if you haven't missed something along the way. There is something to be said for being spontaneous and the choices we make in life. Do we give up one freedom to have another?
Sep 10, 2019
Excellent product.
I make bracelets and this product holds together very nicely and does not break easily. I love the Magic Stretch cord.