EmilyPerlKingsley,rašėtelevizijosprogramą "Sezamogatvė" (Sesame Street)ir yra Dauno sindromuvaiko motina. Tokiu būdu jos tekstas prasideda: "“I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability—to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this..."
Ar ne tiesa, kad kartais tenka nusileisti Olandijoje?
Gyvenime dažnai atsiranda sunkumų, prieštaravimų, tamsos akimirkų, kai, rodos, vos įmanoma surasti išeitį. Šitas eilėraštis, kurį parašė William Ernest Henley ligoninės lovoje po kojos amputavimo padrąsino Nelsoną Mandelą, kai jis buvo kalėjime. Manau, kad verta klausyti, skaityti ir neužmiršti, kad Tu esi savo likimo šeimininkas ir savo sielos kapitonas.
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.