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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... wasn't going to be that way any more! Neither was there anything to gain by describing my life with a 'before' and an 'after'. I had to adjust to different ways of doing things. I, too, had to look for new ways. I had to find a way to ...
... wasn't. Wild blackberries were plentiful. We canned them by the gallons. Wild blueberries, huckleberries, made the best jam. They thrived in rattlesnake territories, where we infrequently visited. A combination of wild cooked greens ...
... wasn't helped by the bad economic times and the declining farm income. Mom was one of the older children in a family of ten siblings. She was the only girl. Mom was expected to perform as the mother to her younger brothers, to tell them ...
... wasn't unusual to learn that they had voted against each other! Roosevelt had made Dad a staunch republican. Mom voted as an independent. Our life on a small farm was not an easy one. Yet it was not without its moments of pleasure, joy ...
... wasn't as productive as we were. One of us would catch a few winks of sleep during our turn at handling the boxes. The last week of pea harvest was a one hundred and twenty six hour week. From the constant gripping of the pitchfork and ...
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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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