Milkbean Chronicles

One never knows what simple thing may be the thing that transforms a life, and there are incredible people in the world that can critically assist in effecting a transformation, a renaissance. Let me tell you how the Little Brothers- Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) program, for me, came to be that singular transformation. For over five years I had been cloistered in an abbey of illness as the result of a spinal injury. Recovery was as climbing a Sisyphean glass mountain. I would take one step forward, and then my health would falter and I found myself sliding two steps backwards. I was a prisoner in my body, and was alone. Isolation was beginning to look like a life sentence. I had gone from being a very independent professional to an isolated invalid and dependent without assistance. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t really take care of myself, and I found myself alone. My disability was frustrating my efforts towards   returning to the world. A life among others had