From Where I Sit, From Where You Stand: A Roll Through LifeAs 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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... Berea College in the fall of 1953. It was the start of the fulfillment of our dreams for a college education. With a nonsectarian and interracial Christian emphasis, John G. Fee, an abolitionist minister, in 1855, founded Berea College ...
... Berea was our best chance for a college education . We wanted to become a part of Berea and Fee's dream . Campbellsville's Junior College offered us a scholarship of half tuition and half work . It had imminent plans to become a four ...
... Berea students were not permitted to have automobiles on the campus. A few students, as my brother and I, parked their cars at an off campus service station. We, theoretically, did not violate the restriction, but in intent we did. We ...
... Berea College needs for the fall. For both of us, we had better paying jobs to look forward to. My two positions as ... Berea job of the previous year. His job at the Berea broom factory had paid better than mine at the dining halls. He ...
... Berea College Hospital. Marvin was treated there. His injuries appeared to be only superficial cuts and bruises. The compound fracture of the large bone, the tibia, in the lower part of my left leg needed surgery. Berea only did minor ...
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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 |