OPINION: 'There, in 150-year-old churches, feeling the echo of millions of prayers envelop me, I reflected on what my life once was, the reality of what it is with disability, and what I hope for my future considering the state…
This spring I spent four months working with Rehab Without Walls, a team of occupational, cognitive and visual therapists who treat patients in real-life settings instead of clinics. The goal was to get more living in my life by developing strategies to deal with ongoing symptoms from a traumatic brain injury I sustained in October 2019.
There was COVID, of course, but also the Jan. 6 attack on the nation’s capital, increasingly insane weather patterns that some people still deny have anything to do with burning coal, morally rudderless politicians who appear intent on letting democracy die, “Fox & Friends” hosts and talk radio jocks hoodwinking Americans into hating actual journalists and thus leading them to question actual facts, and a former president who Just. Won’t. Go. Away.
Importantly, I’d like to attempt finishing the novel I started years ago, a book that was in its 10th and final rewrite just days before the accident and which has sat in a drawer ever since, whispering for my attention.
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