CLARKSVILLE, Ark. — A Benton woman with paraplegia used the once-in-a-lifetime event of the total solar eclipse on April 8, to have her own one-of-a-kind experience.
Lisa Wright was inspired by her dad's career in the US Air Force and formed a love of airplanes at a very early age. When she got older, she chased her dreams of becoming a flight attendant.
Unfortunately, soon after beginning her career, she became paralyzed from the waist down. She has since been bound to a wheelchair and after years of appointments and testing, she learned that she had been diagnosed with stage four bone cancer.
Despite the negatives that have happened in her life, she hasn't let that stop her.
Wright has continued her dreams of flying— but in a free-spirited way.
During the total solar eclipse in Clarksville, she was able to skydive with no engine, just her body soaring through the air until it was time to deploy the parachute.
She attributes her zest for life to a quote by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt:
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
