A THOUSAND MILES: December 2018

My road came to an unexpected halt on November 9, 2010.

I was bicycling to work that morning when a garbage truck drove into a Philadelphia bike lane. I was in that bike lane.

Trauma surgeons saved my life, but they had to amputate my left leg above the knee. The accident changed my body and health forever.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

For more than a decade, that journey has become my way of moving through the world.

I am a person with ability and disability. I travel in the space between. These are my postcards.

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Mile Marker 6995:

Flashback... to a flash drive.
Christmas 2010.

A present arrives in my room, Room 343, at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital.

Mile Marker 6975:

Everything will be all right in the end.
If it's not all right, it is not yet the end.

--Simit Patel, Hotel Manager,

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

I'd like to write a letter to that girl in the wheelchair.