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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... hands of my young sister reached inside to wash the jars. Beans were broken, corn was cut from the cob, apples were peeled, carrots were sliced, and sausage was ground. Cooking wood was supplied. A roaring fire was started in the cook ...
... hands, muscle aches and blisters, food for the table, winter warmth, a sense of completion, and an inner feeling of accomplishment. And even joy! As for creature comforts, we had little. We burned ... hand, balanced the load. With barrels 9.
... hand. They spread the wealth too well. We were into the colored sheets long before another catalog was available. It was the colored sheets or worse. Newspapers were a poor substitute, often breaking apart, subjecting the hand to the ...
... hand at cultivating wild flowers. It didn't work out well. Our success was limited, primarily, to ferns in various shapes and colors of green, the several varieties of daises, and to the goldenrods with its sprays of yellow sparklers ...
... hand. Playing cards was not his thing. Reading was his hobby. We had few toys. In our early youth, we had a red wagon. During our late teen years, Marvin and I had bicycles. Bailing wire was our maintenance parts. Try wire looped around ...
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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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