The Hidden Gifts of Dyslexia, Difference and Death: Stories from - In My Grandfather's Garden
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For a few gruelling years in a Catholic boys’ school, where the Brothers carry a lash under their gowns ready to strike any boy who offends their strict code, Tim struggles with maths and English, and keeps mostly to himself. But he has an observant inner life, with hours spent wandering in the cemetery his grandfather tends, learning about death the leveller and the falsity of social class and wealth.
Tim has pitch perfect hearing and a voice like an angel, and is marked out by the Principal Brother to become a priest. Not him! Suffering the tragedy of losing the only three close friends he makes over the years, he experiences living with dyslexia as a cross to bear, until he finds the key to a fearless destiny as a paramedic, trauma and emergency nurse, and academic.
The gift of dyslexia has taught Tim to say, “Don’t reach for the sky—hell! Go for the stars. You really can do anything you want.” Wisdom, he says, is found in the strangest places.
Among these pages you will experience what Tim learnt within his grandfather’s garden, a strange place to find wisdom—among the head stones and monuments, and where, he says, you can find yesterday’s people.
Timothy G Spokes
Tim Spokes, born in 1963 in a country town in Victoria, Australia, has many strings to his bow. He is an accomplished musician who plays many instruments, is a trained nurse and midwife, has worked as a flight nurse with the Royal Flying Doctor service in remote areas, and as a nursing academic. With what some say is a serious learning difficulty, dyslexia, he struggled with conventional schooling, and has suffered the loss of three close friends. As a young adult, he found the key to living life to the full: you really can do anything you want to. You just have to find—not be told—what it is. Now with four daughters, two of whom he has watched struggle with a condition he is so familiar with — dyslexia — Tim tells his story so his daughters and others realize the hidden secrets within an often misunderstood learning difficulty that just happens to be… an amazing asset. In My Grandfather’s Garden is Tim’s first book, and these short stories, drawn from his book are a sampling of the wisdom he has found in the strangest places.
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