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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... Stay aware. A feeling human being sits there. The bard Shakespeare eloquently stated, “All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Life is like a play. We go through the stages of our life acting it out. We all ...
... stayed close to nature and its enthralling beauty . The wild creatures were a delight to watch . We marveled at the cunning of a fox streaking away with its prey . We watched , from of a gray a distance, the mother skunk with its little ...
... stayed alert for the presence of a copperhead, our noses attuned to its cucumber smell and our eyes peeled for any unusual slithering object or colorful mounds of the coiled snake. As we sat on the throne of the privy, we were shocked ...
... stay at home and take care of us in our old age.” In some ways, Mom never left. She kept returning to lend a hand. Mom left home in her early twenties. She took a job, with some domestic duties, as a live-in companion to children. The ...
... stayed away, far away. With a 22 rifle, Grandpa could knock a squirrel out of the top of a large oak at 'five ... stay on earth a little while longer and give her a little rest. Later, we children were dropped from the plea to God ...
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 |