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Assisted Suicide

Summer in the Birkshires

Accepting My Body, Mending My Soul: Life After Severe Disfigurement

Mexico: New Ideas in an Old Country

An Oasis in the Desert

Olmstead:  What Does it Mean?

ADAPT:  The Legend of It's Leaders

Freddy

Living with Huntington's Disease

Anatomy of an Action:  ADAPT Goes to Ohio

A Yellowstone Diary

Growing Up in the Barrio Part I

Growing Up in the Barrio Part II

Growing Up in the Barrio Part III

A Look into the Lives of the People of Pine Ridge

Polish Blind Struggle for New Identity After the Fall of Communism

In the Valley of the Shadow of Doubt

Is the ADA Enough?  An Interview with Marta Russell

The Old Man and the Soldier: A Short Story

U. S. Rights - States Rights - Our Rights:  Who's Right?

Tourette Syndrome:  A Most Misunderstood Condition

Ten Years After ADA:  Still Working to Improve the Lives of People with Disabilities

Hunger Gnaws, Hope Slow for the Starving Children of Equador

Sex, Death, and Other People's Money

Bad Facts Make Bad Law:  Death for the ADA?

Ode to Lyle Bald Eagle

Mi Cassa, My Choice

Attitudes - An Early Acceptance Program

In Ecuador, Persons with Disabilities Fight for Dignity

Praise the Lord 

Touched by a Miracle

Wind Chime Walker

A Healing Journey

 

 


Words from the Heart

Nursing Home Blues

Reality

Not Dead Yet

 

 


Our Shared History

by Steven Brown

New York League of the Physically Handicapped

Americans with Disabilities Act 

History of the Division of Rehabilitation-
Education Services

 


She Can't Even Walk, But She Dances

by Eunice Taylor Favors

She can’t even walk,
    but she dances;
she dances with her eyes,
    urging,
        insisting,
            encouraging

She dances with her laughter,
    silly,
        sincere,
            infectious

She dances with her voice,
    clear,
        sultry,
            soothing

She dances with her crooked walk,
    uneven,
        undaunted,
            unwavering
With movement of life she dances

Who is this woman,
    tall or stout,
    young or old,
    family or friend?

Woman who has molded
    Stones and boulders
    into steps and bridges

Her strength of inner will
    defies shackles and
    senseless circumstances,
Sensitivity
    lightens sandpapers obstacles,
Patience
    balances fiery anger

You know her,
    dancing with life,
        listening,
            inspiring

Her soft, passionate beauty
    loving you
        more than music

She can’t even walk,
but she dances


6/12/88

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