Nature

So.  This is a picture of me at the top of Lambert Dome.  I know that this may seem like it isn't everyday life, but in reality it is what I hope to be my everyday life.  I started looking around me and I could see the small details of the layout of my environment as it is in Seattle, and especially on campus, but then I started thinking about my major (ESRM) and how it involves being out in the wild and in nature in hard to reach places if you have certain disabilities.  I feel strongly that the human spirit is amazing and can achieve many things that it is said could not be done, BUT on an every day basis we are not all Niel Armstrong.  I started looking around at the people who were also in my major and found many similarities, fit, strong, "healthy", all the things that you would expect from an outdoorsy kind of person.  I did not see anyone with visible disabilities.  It became obvious to me that people with visible physical disabilities were not lining up to be in this program.  There are these assumptions that there are those who cannot do these things.  I think some of those assumptions are true in the reality of this world.  To do these things on an everyday basis with a disability can become very frustrating.  I think that there is a false assumption though that those who cannot perform these tasks are not intelligent enough to achieve these tasks.