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Obvious Limitations,
Hidden Potential

FROM
Break Out: Finding Freedom
When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold
James R. Hasse

"... A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

Rossiter Worthington Raymond
A Commentary Prayer

"I saw you come out of the supermarket, pushing a cart full of groceries," Mrs. Barth shouted. Her shrill voice rose above the sharp squawks of the accordion. "You put the groceries in the back seat of the car and then got in and drove away -- all by yourself."

To show I was listening and understood, I nodded, surprised and amused that the incident impressed her so much that she had to describe it to me in the middle of a neighborhood wedding dance.

"I was so surprised," Mrs. Barth continued. "I didn't know you could drive."

I offered another nod. That's all I could do. The polka music bounced off the beams of the town hall as couples strutted and stomped on the hardwood floor. Any reply in my fractured speech would have gotten lost among the tuba notes, even though I was sitting next to her along a bench tucked against the wall that eventually led to the bar.

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