i went to the blog and I really enjoy it. I was trying to find a place to post...I subscribed, do not see the email the subscription said would come to my box for me to click on. See some icons I cannot use as I do not trust Facebook. Maybe I will get this straight after breakfast. This is part of MY disability, trying to maneuver websites.

I wanted to post a reply to how he was treated in a "house of worship" and why that is, and how one can feel sorry for the people who treat you that way in a house of worship. You remember I had to quit my "house of worship" because they refused to clean the carpet with steam instead of toxic junk. And I had my anger moments, then my moments of feeling free of that ball and chain (my church, no longer my church) and then ultimately I felt sorry for those who are so crippled in their OWN emotions that they couldn't make the slight effort to change their carpet cleaning methods. And Richard needs reminding that the "usher" who wouldn't look him in the eye is badly wounded herself. She is going to the "house of worship" to try to heal her own psyche, which is wounded just as Richard's body is wounded. The churches are, Jesus said, like hospitals for the wounded, and those are whom He came to heal...He used other words, but I've heard it paraphrased many times like this.

It is quite obvious, if you look around, that a great many people (majority? large minority?--don't have statistics) are operating wounded, whether or not they use canes or wheelchairs.