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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A Roll Through Life Marshall Wall. THE. PARADOX. Life in a chair Need not be hard to bear. 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 ...
A Roll Through Life Marshall Wall. planned ahead on vacations, thereby minimizing the problems that may occur with travel. We were there to relax and enjoy ourselves as a family, not to fight barriers of inaccessibility. Was life ever ...
A Roll Through Life Marshall Wall. THE GOOD OLD DAYS Tedious toil , Working the soil , Building dreams of hope To cope . Many things shape our lives . For me , toiling in the fields from sunup to sundown played its part . It was a time ...
A Roll Through Life Marshall Wall. two poles at the top of a poorly ventilated barn and combating wasps, it was hanging tobacco to cure. It was cutting corn stalks and bundling them into shocks, ignoring the blades on the stalks slicing ...
A Roll Through Life Marshall Wall. Dad harnessed Nellie , the mare , to a sled or a wagon , and we were off to the grocery for staples or to the mill with corn to grind for bread and animal feed . Generally , we walked and toted the ...
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 |