"Three weeks ago while I was riding in the arena, someone fell, broke a rail fence, then the person yelled. All four horses in the arena flinched. My response to my horse was to take in a deep breath; her ears started to flicker back and forth... showing that she's paying attention to me. The next thing I did was to sink down on her back, which is what you do to stop the horse, so she relaxed. Another rider in the arena screamed when her horse flinched, and that horse took off."
Molly is not trying to prove something, or even to inspire others. She has a few simple intentions, among them to be kind, and to be useful.
"I have a body, yet I am not my body. I have work or employment though I am not defined by my employment for work is an aspect of my interests. I have a vision of myself walking but am not attached to the outcome. Interested? Yes! Attached? No! Whatever animates me continues dwelling inside this body and is totally intact.
"The process of recovery and stabilization after injury is not linear. I am familiar with activities that require practice, doing something over and over and over. I swam competitively and was trained to put in the time and effort to increase speed and stamina. As a martial artist practicing aikido for eleven years at the time of my injury, I knew how to arrive at each day's training with a beginner's mind, looking for what was new in a technique I had been studying for years, seeking freshness. The process of learning to be comfortable with the plateaus - the times when my art seemed to be stagnant or even going backwards - has proved to be a great asset as I faced my spinal cord injury."