Learning how to Breathe
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Learning how to Breathe

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eBook - ePub

Learning how to Breathe

About this book

'Two things happen today. My mother falls and I foresee my own death. These two things may or may not be connected … I know as I watch her fall that, contrary to the habit of a lifetime, I will not walk away.' Linda Neil is a successful musician and performer who, in her thirties, moves back home to live with and care for her mother, Joan. She doesn't realise that her mother's illness will rapidly progress into Parkinson's disease and that this time with her will change Linda's life. Connected by a deep love of music, Linda and her mother find a way to get to know one another again and make sense of what is happening to them. Learning how to Breathe highlights the universality of dealing with ageing and ailing parents and how the family relationships we may have taken for granted can be renewed. In Learning how to Breathe, Linda Neil uses music as a metaphor to share her heartbreaking, but uplifting, story of finally coming to know her mother – and herself.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author Biography
  3. Title Page
  4. Imprint Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. Book One: THE POLITICS OF SADNESS
  9. RETURN
  10. THE LONELIEST GOATHERD
  11. ONE FINE DAY
  12. WE’LL MEET AGAIN
  13. THE RUSTLE OF SPRING
  14. THE POLITICS OF SADNESS
  15. DIVINE DISCOMBOBULATION
  16. IN A MOONLIGHT GARDEN
  17. VOICE IS THE MUSCLE OF THE SOUL
  18. ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
  19. Book Two: LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE
  20. OUR FATHER WHOSE ART WAS HEAVEN
  21. IT’S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN
  22. SEPTEMBER SONGS
  23. THE KEYS OF HEAVEN
  24. FIDDLING IN THE UNDERWORLD
  25. THE ASYLUM SEEKERS
  26. AIN’T WE GOT FUN
  27. GALOP INFERNAL
  28. LIEBESTRAUM
  29. MY MOTHER’S MAD OPHELIA
  30. LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE
  31. Book Three: HOUSE OF LOVE
  32. INTERMEZZO
  33. LOVE LETTERS TO LORD BYRON
  34. INTERLUDE
  35. PANIS ANGELICUS
  36. A MAVERICK IN THE LOUNGE ROOM
  37. EXULTATE JUBILATE
  38. PARKINSON’S SUCKS!
  39. HOUSE OF LOVE
  40. THE VIEW FROM HERE
  41. A SHORT HISTORY OF MUSIC
  42. SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE
  43. EPILOGUE: JOY TO THE WORLD
  44. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS