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Today

I am as busy as I've been since my fall from grace in late 2005, for while we remain the dependent on the Friends of Rich Fritzky, I have withdrawn from Disability, so that I can get back into life. As such, I'm adding courses at FDU and will start teaching at Felician College online as well. I'll be doing writing work for the Chamber, Meadowlink, and Greorge Martin. This is aimed at compensating for the loss of Disability and paying for new health insurance.

In the hope to build a foundation as a speaker and, maybe someday, change the paradigm of my dear "Friends of", I have designed a workshop that I will begin marketing this Fall. Here is a glimsp at it:

Reconstructing Disability

A Workshop

Defining Disability

            ► A distinctive and significant physical impairment

            ► My World – Life as a Quadruple Amputee -The Hard Details*

            ► One either succumbs or rises up.

Responding to Physical Disability

            ► Not without tears

            ► Giving thanks for what is – for life and family and purpose (On   

               Purpose)

            ► Living on Higher Ground - God–Spirit–Love–Meaning (On Spirit)

            ► Accenting the Skills & Possibilities that are left - While different for

               each - my story (On Reaffirming and Recreating)

Broadening the Definition of Disability

            ► Is there among us the perfect person who does not suffer?

            ► Does that suffering not disable?

            ► Can it be argued that no-one is entirely clean and free?

            ► An Exploration**

The Modest Suggestion that Everyone Lives with Disability

            ► To accept this is to see differently, with eyes wide open.

            ►Understanding

            ►Response and Reaction

The Challenge for All

            ► As the Physically Disabled must go within and adapt to their realities     

               in order to survive, so too must the Non Physically Disabled.

            ► Recognition - Honest Assessment-Affirmation

            ► Toolboxes - (churches, schools, organizations, family, friends,

               profesdsionals)

A New Vision, A New Motivation, A New Inspiration

            ►What Dreams May Come

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I'm good, as it's only my energy level that suffers. And as for the pain, it continues to be tempered by the grace of God.

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The Family is good. Maggie, as ever, is my salvation, my love, and the glue that holds our convoluted kingdom together. I am proud of each and everyone of my children, of the choices that they make, of the work that they do and of the dreams that they fashion. Each is going to do good in this world. We are blessed.

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I remain a big believer in the idea that everything we encounter in life can be a blessing, but the trick for me remains to be able to take the pain, the immobility, the affliction, and all that it entails and truly live as if that’s so. It is no easy task and I fail constantly. But I keep picking myself up just before the fall. I shake it off, breathe deep, and go forward. And giving the pain away to God in sacrifice enables me to serve and to be an instrument of grace. In this, I am both empowered and redeemed. 

Know that I am always available to speak and that I look for every opportunity

Also know that my book, A Victory of the Heart, is available to you. One brief excerpt below captures what I think about it all and how I try to live. Everyday!

“But head and heart were, against all odds, intact. I had been extravagantly upheld by the spirits and prayers of so many. Blessed, I had a story to tell about miracles and the power of prayer and never, ever giving up and rejecting fear and maximizing the power of the strength within. Out of an unforgiving tragedy and utter darkness and unbelievable suffering, there was reclamation and this impossibly improbable new life. Yes, my body was forever broken, but I saw with eyes that were wide open and my spirit exalted and magnified the goodness of God. I was blessed with a power that comes from knowing”

Each season, the earth, like us, is reclaimed and reborn ..... as God reminds us just what He has in store for each and everyone of us. Ahh,  just to dwell upon the rich greens and blues and colors manifested by a Summer's sun.