From Where I Sit, From Where You Stand: A Roll Through LifeAuthor House, 02/04/2007 - 332 páginas As Marshall, with his wife and family, rolls through life, accompany him. Enjoy the witty and often whimsical episodes that occur. In work, play, travel, community, and worship, ponder the dialogues of opinions, perceptions, events, and realities of being physically challenged. The journey, which includes more than fifty years in a wheelchair, is presented in a topical display in chapters on different arenas of life: The Paradox - Diversities of perceptions and realties. The Good Old Days - Early life on a one-horse farm. Fate Knocked at My Door - The accident. Angels of Mercy - Hospitalization. Letters of Cheer - Student nurses’ letters. Give Me Elbow Grease - Rehabilitation You Can Go Home Again - Summer at home. The Halls of Ivy - Education. Keeping the Faith – Job searching. The Birds and the Bees – Love and passion. Dreams Come True - Marriage and family. Toiling in the Vineyards - Work experiences. No Man is an Island - Community life. On the Road - Travel. God Bless You – God, others, and I. Keeping the Juices Flowing - Adapting Can’t See the Forest for the Trees – Perceptions. Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk – Realities. The Golden Years - The senior years. The Journey has been one of challenges, physical, mental, and spiritual. It included two years of hospitalization and rehabilitation to prepare him to enter a world not yet ready for the physically challenged. He found himself looking inside with no way in. He boarded airplanes by hand-walking the support rails. He dealt with perceptions: “What can you do? You are handicapped!” His faith and hope were tested: Why me, God? Should I marry? Will any company hire me? Successes came: A lovely wife, two beautiful adopted babies, enjoyable work, friendships, health, and joy.
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... continued the war. Sorry Japan, we didn't see the white flag! Neither did some of the Japanese! During our high school years, Marvin and I hitchhiked to Stanford to check out books from the library. We read biographies and ...
... continued into the classroom! We weren't dummies. Henceforth, we went to school, answered the roll call, and skipped out. Mom was handy with the switch. When the older boys in the Kings Mountain neighborhood picked on us, Mom did not ...
... continued to feed corn to the conveyer to be shucked. The bed sheet became a tug of war. I feed it to the shucking machine. Marvin retrieved it to recover himself. Was he retrieving the cans of corn from the conveyer belt? Who is to say ...
... continued its incessant noise, echoing in the mist. The continual piercing sound of the horn did not go unnoticed. It was heard by the occupants of a house at the top of the hill. The rain had sent the man of the house home from the ...
... continued to blare away. Something was not right! Had there been an accident at the dangerous curve below? Accidents had happened there before. He donned his coat and hat and headed back out into the rain. Help was on the way. Fate ...
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Letters of Cheer | 47 |
Give Me Elbow Grease | 65 |
You Can Go Home Again | 87 |
Keeping the Faith | 111 |
Dreams Come True | 133 |
Toiling in the Vineyards | 157 |
No Man Is an Island | 185 |
On The Road | 213 |
God Bless You | 233 |
Keeping the Juices Flowing | 253 |
Cant See the Forest for the Trees | 275 |
Dont Cry Over Spilled Milk | 295 |
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