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...
giving special needs
If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
endless
Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.
thinking minutes happens
You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
moving broken people
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
beautiful girl home
It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.
needs bad-things knows
When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
heart first-love firsts
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
mom mother believe
So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I could feel myself blushing. 'I can’t do that,' I said. 'Why not?' he asked. 'Is it so hard to believe? You think I’m not a good role-player?' 'No,' I said. 'It’s just–' 'Because I am. Everyone wanted me to be their mother in group.' I just looked at him. 'I just… It’s weird.' 'No, it’s hard. But not impossible. Just try it.' A week earlier, I hadn’t even known what color his eyes were. Now, we were family. At least temporarily.
firsts bitter weak
Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
stupid stupid-things destined
Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
giving together emotion
I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
school ideas voice
Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.
moving useless action
talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
self brave world
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.