Where my disability was once restrictive, I now see it as liberating and redemptive.
Wayne Barr
Wayne Barr is an Oblate of Mount Saviour monastery, retired adjunct professor with SUNY Empire State College, and currently a volunteer host at the Elmira Community Kitchen pantry.
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: There is a kinder, gentler, subtler discrimination these days.
Is there anything more central to our existence than hope? And when it is denied, is there anything more disheartening? There is a poignant moment in Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man when the nameless black narrator realizes he is bereft of hope: I am invisible, understand, simply because p