As Mama was hoping, Karen comes home from school and asks for a play date with Tammy. (Image courtesy of DuckFiles, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Scene 2: Tammy Wants a Play Date A few minutes later, Karen hopped…
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The Healing Horse, Ch. 25: Magical, Scene 1
This scene opens Chapter 25: Magical, which explores the effects of friendship, art, and even makeup on young lives. Scene 1 sets the stage, as Tammy’s mom phones Karen’s to propose a play date for the girls. (Image courtesy of…
The Healing Horse, Ch. 24, Scene 11: Pegasus Predicts Karen’s Future
In the final scene of chapter 24, Karen gets a powerful insight into her purpose in life. After helping her Mama cook and clean up after dinner, thirteen-year-old Karen visits her spiritual mentor and begins to understand how far-reaching the…
The Healing Horse, Ch. 24, Scene 10: Karen Helps Mama
Sometimes, when we learn to love and accept ourselves we can love others more than we knew we could. Love rises to a new level, and we find that acting from that place of love changes how we live. In…
The Healing Horse, Ch. 24, Scene 9: Karen and Tammy Reflect on Their Human Value
After the brutal clinic and eval, Karen turns to her friend, Tammy, for sympathy, but Tammy had an even worse experience at the hands of the experts. Nevertheless, they do not let this undermine their sense of self-worth. (Image courtesy…
Tips on How to Run a Successful Business, Even if You’re Disabled, by Jillian Day
[Editor’s note: Jillian Day created 508Assist.org to help people all across the web make their sites accessible to individuals with disabilities. She was inspired to start 508Assist.org when a close family member, who happens to have a visual impairment, had…
The Healing Horse, Ch. 24, Scenes 7 & 8: Two Brilliant Insights
I combined these two scenes because they are so short, and because they add up to an important message that every child with a disability needs to hear: find your own wisdom, and do not expect so-called experts to understand…
The Healing Horse, Ch. 24, Scene 6: Mama Explains What She Learned
After an exhausting day, Karen and Mama make their way home. Mama thinks she can manage the situation at school, and Karen wisely chooses to look at the day as a learning experience that she can grow from. (Image courtesy…
The Healing Horse, Ch. 24, Scene 5: Mama Coaxes Karen
How can highly-educated professionals shame a child like this? What can a mother do to make it right? (Image courtesy of Fox Film Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Scene 5: Mama Coaxes Karen “My Krana Layala,” Mama said, as…
The Healing Horse, Ch. 24, Scene 5: Mama Speaks
The story continues as Mama speaks up and rescues Karen from the evil experts. (Image courtesy of Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Scene 5: Mama Speaks “Now, look here! I’m sure you found…