| Linger
Marny Duncan-Cary
and Megan Mansbridge
Release Date: September 29, 2006
The inspiration for this song came on my youngest
daughter's first day of school. She wanted to ride the bus
that morning, so I followed her to school and watched and
waved as she went in when the bell rang. She skipped away
and it was me who didn't want to let go.
As the mother of three girls, I'd been looking
forward to having some time to myself again, but i ended up
being the last parent in the schoolyard, waiting just in case
she needed me. I peeked through her classroom window to see
if she was okay. Where did the time go? How did she get so
big?
I lingered in the playground by myself for
a while, crying softly, hoping I'd given my children the nurturing
and the freedom, the roots and the wings, to become the people
they were meant to be. When I got home, I wrote the song "Linger"
and added it to my performances. It seemed to resonate with
audiences and, with the addition of the amazing talents of
my friend and fellow mother, Megan Mansbridge, has evolved
from a song into this book.
"...The moment is bittersweet when a
child finds her wings..."
The illustrator:
Megan Mansbridge was born and raised in rural
Saskatchewan. She is a painter, a sculptor and most importantly,
a mother, and she combines these gifts to create works that
are earthy, honest and that capture all the qualities of a
warm home. Megan graduated from the Alberta College of Art
and now lives on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia with
her husband, Joël Fafard, and their three sons: Zach,
Fynn and Theo. Megan’s creativity is charged by motherhood
and the quiet beauty of nature.
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