'Sectional work' Category
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 […]
Filling in the Background - Section 3
April 3rd, 2007
Filling in the Background - Section 3
by Sigrid Peterson in Unedited material, Sectional work
What was my world like, the day that driver failed to clear her windshield on a wintry day, and ploughed right into me?
What comes first? Surroundings? Social Status? Religion — after all, I lived in Salt Lake City, even though […]A Slippery Flat
Today is the end of a week of ice-storm and its aftermath, that was supposed to end the day after it began, with a torrent of rain. Instead there were five days of intermitten (and intermittent) snow and sleet that layered the roads and sidewalks with treachery. Because the storm would pass us by, I […]
A Disabled Mind
Most of us, readers of this book, will only know what it is to have a disabled mind from the outside looking in. As a counseling/clinical psychologist, I knew disabled minds from interviewing their possessors, and from a neurology textbook, and from the observations that informed Abraham Maslow, especially in his Motivation and Personality. I […]
Contrast II
Less than a month before the date of my premature graduation, I had filed an answer to a complaint by the University of Pennsylvania that I owed them $15,000, in part for University housing. I have never lived in University housing. Instead I have lived in one of two wheelchair-accessible apartment buildings near the University, […]