Before you get to be old and wise, you have to finish being young and stupid.
Living with a disabled person is a learn-as-you-go experience. If anyone wrote a how-to manual, it’s either a joke, or a fantasy. In this life, we walk by faith.
Reading.
Sight is precious. Be grateful for what little you have.
GRAFFITI (as in “graffito”) n. : a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls.
I was born in the LDS hospital, in Salt Lake City, on the morning of the twelfth of February 1962, and was named Stuart James Beall. My parents arranged for a pediatrician to amputate my foreskin, using a Gomko Clamp. Routine infant circumcision was a cultural norm in this country.
Roscoe had just purchased a used RCA television set. According to Nora, he was more interested in that television set than in his wife and baby at the hospital.
Our family lived in South Salt Lake City for the first nine years of my life. Our red brick house was built by my maternal grandfather, Oscar Peter Hendriksen, who lived on the adjoining property at 130 West Crystal Avenue.
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