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In the Headlights
I have always said that the driver of the car that hit me must not have turned on her lights, or she would have seen me against the background of fresh snowfall from the night before. Today, as I walked toward Penn, I approached a cross street. I’ll try to diagram the situation:
The car caught […]
Dialog problem notes - MS word file
Getting It Together (smoothing it out)- Section 4
There is a picture I can see in my mind. I am in a wheelchair, and two men are walking with me. Well, one is pushing my chair, and the other is walking. We are viewing panels from the AIDS quilt, a memorial to the victims of the disease in those first years, when survival […]
Smoothing Out - Section 4
If the period after The Accident was “In the Rough,” I can term the next period one of smoothing out. It meant gathering together what I had been able to accomplish, learning more about the difficulties ahead, and particularly solving the practical problems of living alone, except for one cat, and the occasional daughter.
In the […]In the rough
How do you know when you have recovered from traumatic brain injury? When you go back to work at your old job? When you learn a new task and perform it better
than most?
Is there a way to measure learning to walk again?
I think the clearest way to self-knowledge in recovery is setting a goal and […]Thrown
This word, “thrown,” seems to me right now to express something I want to use in/as the title.
Most of all, thrown as in “radical thrownness,” from existential philosophy. The idea that we exist in a state of radical thrownness, not having chosen our specific time or circumstances of existence, and that we make our own […]