Secret Lives of the Disabled

Live performance in New York City, written & performed by Sally Greenhouse. An allegory about becoming physically disabled. Compliments of Dixon Place

Sally Greenhouse and Psychologist George Bonnano get into a thought provoking interchange about the relative prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.About George BonnanoThe End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilienceis Changing How We Think About PTSD

www.HeidiLatskyDance.orgHeidi Latsky solo (40 second excerpt)ON DISPLAY / Lincoln Center / 2017 (Paul Galando-filmmaker)ON DISPLAY 2024 GLOBAL: The Stories We TellLisa Bufano : WIKI Profile Lawrence Carter-Long : Episode 16, Secret Lives of the Disabled

Professor Dan Ariely, researcher in Behavioral Economics, whose TED talks have been seen by 27 million, weighs in on his latest book release MISBELIEF: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things, as host performance artist/broken neck survivor Sally Greenhouse struggles to explore the current political & psychological resonance for those with acquired physical disabilities during the Covid era, after viewing his short video online."When is Life Worth Living?"Inspired by Ariely's life experience as a burn patient, surviving an explosion, combined with his  unique research focus, television show "The Irrational" starring Jesse Martin is in its second season on NBC.NOTE: “Just the facts ma’am”  was the catchphrase attributed to the lead character, Joe Friday, of the popular 1950’s-1960’s crime television show, DRAGNET, meant to instruct a person being interviewed to state exactly what happened, without embellishment or exaggeration. Ironically, while it is remembered as the precise line, it was never spoken in this way, as subsequent versions, including satires, have demonstrated.

 Liza Grandia, PhD, is a Professor & Chair in the Dept of Native American Studies @ University of California, Davis, where she teaches both doctoral students and undergrads in an interdisciplinary program with a hemispheric focus on Indigenous peoples of the Americas. An alum of Yale University, with a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, Professor Grandia leads a wide ranging academic career that has included  A National Science Fdtn grant, seven years of fieldwork in Guatemala, new book release: Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power (pub 11.24), and a manuscript-in-progress: Charismatic Chemicals.The topic of this episode pertains to this recent work, and addresses the disabling effects of human made toxics that exist unregulated in our indoor environments and in common products that cause extreme reactivity leading to physical disability.

Retinitus Pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease that progressively narrows the visual field, affects approximately 100,000 Americans. Andrew Leland leads us through his own narrative of living with this sensory disability while exploring the meaning of sightedness/blindedness with refreshing non-binary illuminating the ways in which we see, in the most expansive sense of that word.The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of SightAndrew Leland (now in paperback)Blindness isn't a tragic binary - it's a rich spectrum (TED Talk)

"Crip Camp” Documentary 2020. Produced by Barack & Michelle Obama. Streaming on NETFLIX. (Academy Award nominated)“My Octopus Teacher” Best Documentary  2020 Academy Award Recipient.DisArt Instagram, Facebook, Website - Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Sally & Bob discuss his comment to her after she broke her neck, in which he told her that she had, "burned off karma."Books by Robert Thurman: Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within; Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Real Happiness; Essential Tibetan Buddhism.MENLA Retreat Center : Weekend & Weeklong Workshopshttps://menla.org/TIBET HOUSEhttps://thus.org/For the story of Jenny Cockell (UK woman who remembers her past life.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBoNznZXUD8

TIBET HOUSE {Dedicated to preserving and promoting Tibetan culture, one of several cultural embassies founded by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.}Address: 22 W 15th St.NYC E-mail:[email protected]

The Gauntlet Substack by Julia Doubleday (https://www.thegauntlet.news/)"The Sick Times” Co-Founder/Co-Editor Miles Griffis (https://thesicktimes.org/)

Author of The Middle Passage : From Misery to Meaning in Midlife & Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places

Cross-Genre writer Fenton Johnson discusses living as a “Solitary”, his recent book At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life & its relevance for those whose lives have been transformed by physical disability while alone.

A data-driven Public Health clarification/discussion with historical instances of previous American medical misconceptions, about how Covid isn't over for those with physical disability related medical vulnerability.https://www.thegauntlet.news/

A Judaic perspective on becoming physically disabled & being part of the Jewish Community of Amherst. Irish Lit scholar {Samuel Beckett & James Joyce}, family farmer and Reconstructionist Rabbi Ben Weiner, does a deep dive into the theological/scriptural foundation of their “Non-Exclusionary” policy.

Executive Director of the Disability Policy Consortium of Massachusetts, Colin Killick, offers updates & commentary on discrepancy in critical health care for the physically disabled during the pandemic & its aftermath, while reviewing his newly drafted legislative reforms. With a grad degree from the Kennedy School of Gov’t @ Harvard U, Colin is a trail blazing  advocate overturning discrimination against those with disability in medical access.

MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient , short story writer Andre Dubus ll, was hit by a car on a highway in Massachusetts @ age 50, sustaining disabling injuries that disabled him until his death 12 years later. Andrea Ivanov-Craig, author of Moving Toward Redemption: Spirituality & Disability in the Late Writings of Andre Dubus ll  while Jep Streit was a participant in his weekly short story workshop for years. (The son of Andre Dubus ll, novelist Andre Dubus lll, is featured in Ep. 2 of this podcast Such Kindness.)

Books: Sympathetic Magic, No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012, Dusty Angel, All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir.

Bob Waldinger, MD, Zen Priest; Tom Bachman, Practice Leader of HANK Sangha on spiritual practice inclusivity.

Transforming PTSD into Post Traumatic Growth.

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth." - Albert Camus