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Day 2742: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

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“Active racism is telling a nurse supervisor that an African American nurse can’t touch your baby. It’s snickering at a black joke. But passive racism? It’s noticing there’s only one person of color in your office and not asking your boss why. It’s reading your kid’s fourth-grade curriculum and seeing that the only black history covered is slavery, and not questioning why. It’s defending a woman in court whose indictment directly resulted from her race…and glossing over that fact, like it hardly matters.” ― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

 

It’s 2 : 21 PM on day 2742 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray,  have breakfast, read 3 John 1:4 and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – raised  $12 659 only $6 091 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to reach my new goal of helping 75 kids with Clubfoot by June 17, 2018.

 

Yesterday I finished reading Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult – a book that centres around a African American nurse named Ruth who is charged with murder after a Caucasian  baby dies on her watch but there’s a catch the baby’s White Supremacist parents specifically requested that Ruth be taken off their baby’s case – I love this book because it gives you a view of racism from all the different angles and I found that there are a lot  of parallels between racism and ableism because whether you’re black or in a wheelchair the burden of proof is on you, you have to work ten times as hard to prove you’re competent even before you do anything to suggest otherwise because the automatic presumption is incompetence.

Day 1895: Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone’s not reading your story right now?” ― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

 

It’s  12 :  24  PM on day 1805 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,  read Romans 12, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, learn one new thing – Abrogate [ab·ro·gate] v. Repeal or do away with a law, right, or agreement. “To abrogate a law.”-  have breakfast, hang out with family and listen to music.

 

Yesterday I finished reading Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer it’s about Prince Oliver who’s determined to escape the fairy tale in which he is stuck and Delilah who’s determined to help him it’s a sweet story of young love but it’s also a story about wanting more out of life which I think all of us can relate to I would recommend it to anyone looking for a sweet and light read.

Day 1588: Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

“Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?” ― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

 

It’s 1 : 30 PM on day 1588 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  brush my teeth,  pray,  read Jeremiah 5, publish my Disability of the Day feature,  learn one new thing – Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is often called the ‘Red Planet’ due to the iron oxide prevalent on its surface, which gives it a reddish look –  promote my Educate Generations campaign–still on  $1 370 but I’m grateful- go to a 2 hour long church service and stay for brunch.

 

Yesterday afternoon I finished reading Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult the book is about young Jenna who is determined to find her elephant researcher mother who went missing after an accident at the elephant sanctuary the whole time I was reading the book I was trying to predict how the book was going to end looking back I realize I shouldn’t have bothered trying to figure out the ending because the twist was so brilliant that I would have had to be a genius to see it coming.

Day 1531: Growth and the evolution of tastes

As we grow our tastes evolve and that’s okay – that’s what I realized today.

 

It’s 12 : 47 PM on day 1531 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Isaiah 18, start reading Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult – we woke up to a power outage but I quite enjoyed it no TV, no music and no internet just me and the latest Jodi Picoult novel 🙂 – feed myself Uppumavu and chicken curry and a banana for breakfast,  publish my Disability of the Day feature and promote my Educate Generations campaign–still on $850 but people have promised to donate and I  continue to pray about so things will get moving again eventually meanwhile I’ll continue to raise awareness about the importance of girls’ education.

 

This morning I was thinking about how my taste in books has evolved with age back in the day I only read romance novels now I pride myself on reading books by Mitch Albom, Jodi Picoult and Malcolm Gladwell and I almost feel embarrassed when someone catches me reading a romance novel. Have you noticed that your tastes have evolved with age?

Day 1450: Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult

“Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But all I see when I look at you is that girl who had memorized all the words to Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by the time she was three, the girl who crawls into bed with me whenever there’s a thunderstorm – not because you’re afraid but because I am, the girl whose laugh has always vibrated inside my own body like a tuning fork. I would never have wished for an able-bodied child, because that child would have been someone who wasn’t you.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

 

It’s 12  : 12 PM on day 1450 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray,  brush my teeth, go back to sleep, stretch my hamstrings,practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, read Psalm 138, publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself an egg sandwich and yogurt  for breakfast , have a feet massage and listen to music.

 

Last night I finished reading Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult – a novel about Charlotte O’Keefe who decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her former obstetrician and current best friend claiming that if she found out sooner that her youngest daughter had Osteogenesis imperfecta she would have had an abortion – the book is beautifully written but it was hard for me to read because my birth could also be considered by some as a wrongful birth.

Day 1142: House Rules by Jodi Picoult

Reading gives you an opportunity to see life through someone else’s eyes– that’s what I keep learning.

 

It’s 12 : 18 PM on day 1142 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,   read 1 Kings 22,    publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself  Bran Flakes and boiled egg for breakfast,   finish reading  House Rules by Jodi Picoult, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles,  stretch my hamstrings, take off my dirty jacket and t-shirt and put on a clean t-shirt and spend time outside.

 

This morning I finished reading  House Rules by Jodi Picoult – a novel about Jacob, an eighteen-year-old who has Asperger’s Syndrome, who is accused of the murder of his tutor – there were some things I could totally relate to like the fact that when one family member is differently-abled the whole family is differently-abled by association and other things that were totally foreign to me like what it’s like to hear the smallest sounds reading this novel has  given me a new respect for people who have Autism and has made me grateful for the way my brain processes information.

Day 130

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  ~ Ambrose Redmoon

It’s 8: 14 PM on day 130 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself Oats for breakfast,   design  posters for the fundraiser that my friends from the UK –  @sapphire100 (Emma) and @laura_FilanFan (Laura) are organizing for my campaign –I finished designing both posters now I just have to back from the rest of the gang 🙂  feed myself pizza for lunch,  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours –no donations were made today, but on the plus side I did get to ‘meet’ Jodi Picoult who by the way happens to be one of my favorite authoresses   she was SO nice and when I said I needed to talk to her about something she was quick to offer up her email address – I was SO happy 🙂     exercise for 10 minutes and feed myself rice and curry  for dinner.

Anyone who knows me knows that I can look death in the eye without flinching, but yesterday when my brother suggested that I go up in front of a church full of people and ask for donations I reacted out of fear saying no one will donate to which he responded you never know if you don’t try so in honour of my brother this Sunday I will roll into that church, say what I need to say and conquer my greatest fear. Would you put yourself in the line of fire if it meant helping others? 🙂