Einstein said, “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” I won’t boast to think that I know what precise meaning he attached to these words, but I can discuss what it means to me. In social media, I use the hashtag #NoLimits a lot. It is meaningful after being told what my limitations were and…
Maybe it looks strange and too bold of me… that I challenge people’s mindset, no matter who they are. Maybe it makes no sense that I will talk back to someone with a more profoundly visible disability than my own, because they are swallowing limitations and I refuse to. I challenge people about their perceived…
Rheumatic autoimmune disease in particular has a habit of presenting symptoms that are unpredictable. They can sneak up and take you to the ground unexpectedly, and mercilessly. (For some people that is quite literal, not just metaphorical.) I asked some of my friends for input on this because I’ve been mulling the topic over for…
Every day there is a new reason to work harder at maintaining some Zen for my own good. Every day there are bigger challenges to keeping a focused and uninflamed mental state over the things with which I am confronted and it’s not easy. There is always someone that thinks they know what your life should…
Jhonathan Florez had such a bright spirit and an expression of joy about him. You could be sure listening to his voice that he had an absolute and abiding love for what he was doing. The inherent risk of extreme sports, and having friends that participate in them is that there will be losses. That doesn’t…
WOW. Just wow. The things that I see people say in social media are stunning sometimes, and I really struggle some days to process the dissonance. Some of it is personally hurtful because of my own illness/disabilities. I’m not into letting it bring me down. It’s just eye-opening as to how big of a task we…
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