Credit goes to his wife for holding the family together during the bad times. Chip Lapp perseveres. This is the central lesson in any life, this rising up. A good and full life can't be realized or appreciated without a measure of pain. When I get myself in here in the morning, I've already won.
Every day is a victory.
Nothing that happens, no matter how bad it seems, is going to beat me. Because I'm here. My butt is in this chair. I don't ask him how he ties his shoes or knots his neckties, or what it feels like, at 44, to know he'll live the rest of his days with one good arm and a limp. That seems irrelevant.