![]() ![]() That is a powerful message in itself, but it is the messenger who gives it its full resonance. Published on the eve of both his fiftieth birthday and the seventh anniversary of his spinal cord injury, Christopher Reeve's Nothing Is Impossible reminds us that life is not to be taken for granted but to be lived fully with zeal, curiosity, and gratitude. He steers the listener gently, offering his reflections and guidance but not the pat answers that often characterize inspirational works. He asks challenging questions about why it seems so difficult - if not impossible - for us to work together as a society. Reeve knows from experience that the work of conquering inner space is hard and that it requires some suffering - after all, nothing worth having is easy to get. Hook, Davis, Owen, Worthington and Utsey (2013) conceptualize cultural humility as the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are. Reeve teaches us that for able-bodied people, paralysis is a choice - a choice to live with self-doubt and a fear of taking risks - and that is not an acceptable one. Cultural humility is one construct for understanding and developing a process-oriented approach to competency. For example, developments in computer graphics and virtual reality will make the online experience as real as real life, or perhaps even better (51). The latter is still in formation, but it holds promise of being even better than the former. He interweaves anecdotes from his own life with excerpts from speeches and interviews he's given. According to the book there are now two civilizations: the physical and the virtual. In Nothing Is Impossible, the author of the bestselling autobiography Still Me shows that we are all capable of overcoming seemingly insurmountable hardships. As I look to my own and younger generations, it seems more urgent than ever to nurture capacious ethical imaginations on a steady diet of fearless dreams and vigorous hopes. If we can conquer outer space, we can conquer inner space, too.Ĭhristopher Reeve has mastered the art of turning the impossible into the inevitable. If we are brave enough to let go and dream, we might find new evidence that God still so loves this world. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ![]()
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