It.s My World 🗺️ Too. Accepting Challenges, Embracing Life 🧬

✅ In 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣1️⃣, on a farm outside Troy, Missouri, a boy 👦 named 📛 Homer Page 📃 was born. Blind since birth, Homer has lived his 👤👨⬅️ life 🧬 in vibrant determination to be a part of the game 🎮️. He 👤👨 has known 💡 success and ➕ failure, felt 💆‍♀️ hope 🔮 and ➕ heartache, and ➕ experienced joy 😂 and ➕ despair. He 👤👨 struggled to 🔎 find the courage to act 🎭️ and ➕ the wisdom to accept what he 👤👨 could not ❌️ change. Through it all, he 👤👨 never let circumstances become limitations. Homer received two 2️⃣ letters 🔠 in wrestling 🤼‍♂️ from the University of Missouri, earned his 👤👨⬅️ doctorate 😷 from the University of Chicago, and ➕ went ➡️ on to teach at the University of Colorado. He 👤👨 later pursued and ➕ enjoyed a career in elective office 🏢. He 👤👨 is a leader in the disability rights ➡️ movement and ➕ has lectured on the topic of the rehabilitation of the blind in both Sweden ​🇸🇪​ and ➕ Poland ​🇵🇱​. In this memoir, he 👤👨 shares the story of his 👤👨⬅️ life 🧬-the challenges and ➕ disappointments that he 👤👨 overcame on the way to a meaningful and ➕ successful personal 💻️ and ➕ professional career. But he 👤👨 also tells 🗣️ a larger story about living with disability in mainstream America ​🇺🇸​. Homer explores the joy 😂 and ➕ pain that he 👤👨 and ➕ others have experienced as American ​🇺🇸​ society has changed over the past seventy years. Most of all, however, his 👤👨⬅️ is the story of a realist who refuses to 🎁➡️ give up ⬆️. In the end 🔚, it is a story of the affirmation of life 🧬 and ➕ the joy 😂 of living.

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