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Finding my balance

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Blueberries and homemade granola

Marjorie Turner Hollman supports nonfiction authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Let’s get in touch.

The past thirty or so years have offered me challenges I never dreamed of. I no longer take for granted the ability to walk. “You never know what you’ve lost till it’s gone,” became my reality at age thirty-seven.

The years since then have taken me on a healing journey that has restored substantial movement to my right arm and let, and has profoundly changed who I am. Healing has come, slower than I hoped for, but it has come on many levels.

As I approach old age (reaching 70 hit hard!) I grew increasingly concerned that any more healing was past, and that the possibility of future increase in function was gone . . . .

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Common Sense

Dad helping my brother launch a water-filled rocket

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Marjorie Turner Hollman helps authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Learn more.

My dad could do anything. Really. Whenever my siblings or I got stuck trying to complete any practical task, we turned to him, and predictably, he was able to fix, open, close, or repair it. Every single time.

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Hints of rutabaga

Dad and Mom on left, grands in pool, Ted and Betty, Grannie on the far right

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Marjorie Turner Hollman helps authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Click to learn more.

The unfamiliar scent was overwhelming. I was suddenly a very young girl again and the wooden floor of my friends’ country kitchen had been transformed into polished terrazzo.

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Giving and receiving

Marjorie Turner Hollman helps authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

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It’s better to give than to receive, so they say. Maybe you’ve heard this around the holidays, when gift-giving is a big thing. For children, like “share your toys!”, the phrase is often heard as a scold. Perhaps you were resentful that someone else got something you wanted. You might have felt disappointed in a gift you received and made the mistake of letting others know.

As we grow older and have more agency, the inclination to give can take on different dynamics.

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