Precerpt from Raising God's Rainbow Makers: 🌈 Doah’s Logic
Doah’s mind often worked in ways that startled me—sometimes funny, sometimes profound, always his own. His mental challenges meant he processed the world differently, but that difference often revealed truths I might have missed. 💰 The Nickels When Doah was five or six, nickels were his treasure. He loved to collect them, roll them up, and march proudly to the bank to exchange them for “real” money. Anyone giving him a gift—birthday, holiday, or otherwise—knew to tuck in a few nickels. And if he spotted one on the ground, it was pure delight. He prized those nickels as if they were gold. A few weeks later, we were on a plane—I can’t even remember now where we were returning from—sitting in the middle two seats of a bulkhead row. The man on the aisle beside Doah noticed how awkward the bulkhead could be: overhead bins opening and closing, trays swinging out of armrests, all the little inconveniences that make travel taxing for a child. He was kind and solicitous, helping us ...