And yet, when she dies.Donna The Buffalo, The Infamous Stringdusters, Cory Henry, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, John Brown’s Body, Dobet Gnahoré, DakhaBrakha, Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce feat. Every Friday I read her Psalm 31 and the verse that always strikes me is, “Her children rise and praise her, her husband and he lauds her”. She had, and has, an indomitable spirit, refusing to be defeated by her circumstances. And because of that our sons had happy childhoods and grew into kind and successful adults. She was a teacher, a homemaker, a disciplinarian. She appeared every year in our sons classes to teach about disability and difference. But in my life it mostly applies to my wife who, when our children were in elementary school, contracted bacterial meningitis and was left a quadrilateral amputee - both legs above the knee and all ten fingers to the first joint. I know these lines from the baseball movie “Bull Durham” because I had a son who played in the minor leagues, who had a fine character that greatly exceeded his accomplishments on the field. “Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,Īnd waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
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