Sarah Will
Sarah Will
Sarah Will is a paralympic skier who spent 11 years on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. During this time, she earned a record 13 medalswhile competing in four Winter Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2002. Will serves as a ski instructor and is otherwise active in the Vail community. She was named to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in July 2009 and is a nominee for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame...
During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.
eye lasts months
If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
two giving band
For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.
rain sun way
She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.
real long
I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.
swim drifting dreamland
Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.
matter different planning
A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.
mean understanding easy
Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.
moon men flavor
Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon
crazy talking jumping
Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions, the back-and-forth and forth-and-back. I realized that if I tried to focus on it too much, I got overwhelmed. So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.
watches events repeating-history
So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
girl laughter sight
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.
wonder made claims
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
cutting wanted eighteen
Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38