the PDF of her book - National Aphasia Association

viii Ruth Codier Resch Without Utterance:
it is an attempt to give hope and voice to the many who remain speechless.
In asking me to write this Foreword, Ruth said, “Making the book a
reality now, crosses a huge boundary for me-- stepping into public articulate
visibility. Visibility for myself, but as much for the hundreds of thousands of
people with aphasia who cannot tell their story. Speaking is a gift, a complex,
mind/body gorgeous miracle. We should be speaking carefully and be on our
knees in gratitude.”
Indeed, as we are grateful to Ruth for this book. As she has written:
“Without the landscape of utterance, I’ve unearthed treasures, wreathed and
adorned myself with an extravagance of sensory languages. Dressed in them,
I’ve gone to the heart of what is ... and pressed toward the edges of what can
be. I’ve moved in spaces where mystery collides with mind and melts into
vision.” (p. 140).