It's About the Mind

Humans live in all sorts of environments and conditions. To adapt, to reinvent to new scenarios is not just a matter of our physical abilities. It's more about the mind. Chapters come and go in the ongoing story of our lives. We are not the same person we were last year or the same person we are evolving into tomorrow.

We often underestimate our capacity for reinvention, to keep turning the pages even if it's undesirable and unexpected. This past year has felt like an insurmountable chapter. Too many abrupt changes and losses. Entering the next, I find myself grasping for the story I was working to tell. The free, capable, gracious, motivated, body-expressing human.

I asked a few different friends if this picture was too much. Why am I okay with sharing my words with all of you, but embarrassed to see my flat-ass crack squeaked in a wheelchair? This is who I am right now.