JOSHUA PRAGER

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer need its support.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer need its support.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.