by Jeramy Hale | Mar 14, 2016 | Jeramy's Blog
A little blurb from the newsletter of Abilities United speaking of the past event with Dorothy Fadiman “Meeting Challenges” United by abilities: the capacity to overcome challenges! Concentric Media and filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman joined forces with...
by Jeramy Hale | Mar 18, 2015 | Aikido, Jeramy's Blog
4th Dan Aikikai, Ms. Molly Hale has joined our Board of Consulting Instructors to represent the art of Aikido. Having studied as both a traditional and adaptive martial artist, Ms. Hale brings a unique perspective to our community. In July 1984, Molly attended a...
by Jeramy Hale | Feb 28, 2015 | Aikido, Jeramy's Blog
Molly—an early supporter of WHILL—sits with perfect posture in her chair and gestures with her arms at the various parts of the garden that she maintains—remarkable feats given the prognosis delivered to her in 1995. Refusing to accept the level of disability that...
by Jeramy Hale | Oct 7, 2014 | Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
The worst is behind me, and for all of you who are following this story, the worst is behind us all. There have been moments when, in the remembering and the telling of this story, I have had to take deep breaths to calm myself down. A number of the details and events...
by Jeramy Hale | Sep 18, 2014 | Aikido, Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
In the week before Molly’s accident, she knew something was going to happen. She just didn’t know what. She said that there were all of these indicators during the week-long Aikido retreat preceding her accident that in retrospect, had filled her with a sense of...
by Jeramy Hale | Sep 5, 2014 | Aikido, Jeramy's Blog, Survival of the Non-Fittest
With all of the people coming in and out of the rehab ward at Stanford, many of them touching and massaging Molly’s body, it opened up a new world of sensation. It also opened up a new world of no sensation, because Molly didn’t have any from the neck down. Let me...
