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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... never objected to us working in the tobacco harvest of others . I guess , individually , each had to come to terms with that . When we grew up , the tobacco allotment was rarely exercised . After Marvin and I left home , survival ...
... never ending . When one crop was harvested , another crop was ready . Several crops were often ready at the same time . Many a day , it was up at daybreak , toil , taking a brief respite for lunch , resume , and stop at sundown . When ...
... never objected to going to Grandma and Grandpa's . It was a vacation ! And , the return , at times , had an unplanned attraction or distraction . One was a chance encounter with the neighborhood bully and his older brother . Bop ! I got ...
... never joined us . The board games were old - fashioned checkers , Chinese checkers , dominoes , and monopoly . We worked jigsaw picture puzzles that we received at Christmas time . We always had a deck of cards , a great diversion for a ...
... Where were the tomahawks? Were they too gentle by nature for their own good? Don't be misled! Dad could grab the tomahawk and enter the sibling fray. Yet he never became angry when he should have. People took advantage of him. When Mom 19.
Contents
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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 |