Today I Wrestled a Sheep (And Other Thoughts on Disability)
One thing that fascinates me, perhaps in a morbid way, is how disability and disease effects every part of a person’s life–especially when it’s not an physically obvious diseases. Today I read Nancy Mairs’s essay Disability, which I’d highly recommend. One of my favorite quotes comes at the end: But it will be a good bit easier psychologically if you are accustomed to seeing disability as a normal characteristic, one that complicates but does not ruin human existence. Achieving this integration, for disabled and able-bodied people alike, requires that we insert disability daily into our field of vision: quietly, naturally,...