The Intelligence of Beauty Conversations with My Mother Hardcover – December 18, 2024

The Intelligence of Beauty: Conversations with My Mother is a story about legacy. Her legacy. My legacy. Our family's legacy. It is a story about how she has navigated life beginning in the 1930's. Through interviews, family photographs, letters, and poems, my mother retraces her steps in history through the years. Our conversations take us back and forth from the present to the past.The Intelligence of Beauty: Conversations with My Mother is a collection of a series of snapshots that together resulted in this story about my mother who through triumphs and sorrows continues to tear down walls of resistance with grace. My mother continued her own distinct and elegant ascent of success in so many areas that were designed for her failure. With the same tenacious determination her mother taught her, she continues to model a legacy of love, in spite of early childhood tragedies and traumas, the absence of her father, and multiple health challenges later in life.Enchanting and historical, The Intelligence of Beauty: Conversations with My Mother spans a lifetime of courage and resilience. Read more