Don’t
Let Me Go
What My Daughter Taught Me About the Journey
Every Parent Must Make
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Date: March 17, 2009 Please The next year promises to be busy with decisions (cool book publishing decisions, I bet). I’m inviting you to come along with me on this journey. |
About
the Book
Don’t Let Me Go is a story of a three-year journey that my teenage
daughter Chera and I took climbing mountains and running marathons—mountains
and valleys—both literally and metaphorically.
Although this story is filled with humorous moments—like when we meet Chad, who admits to being s a “bit clumsy with an ice ax” —there are also moments of disappointment (we fail our first evaluation at Mt. Rainier) and great redemption (we limp across the finish line of our second marathon). When the story begins, we are novices, both as father and daughter and as mountain climbers. But during the course of this journey, the growth of our relationship closely parallels that of our mountaineering. Although this is a book about pain and perseverance, disappointment and victory, it is mostly what a father learns about his daughter—by watching her character, both in the valleys and on the mountaintops.