The Hallelujah Life
Since 1989, nationally recognized activist and child advocate Richard Propes has traveled over 6,000 miles by wheelchair on a one-man mission he calls The Tenderness Tour. In 1989, Propes started The Tenderness Tour with $20 in his pocket, a backpack on his wheelchair, and an uncertain mission to travel for 41 days and over 1,000 miles along the roads of Indiana. A paraplegic and double amputee born with spina bifida, Propes had already far outlived expectations, though he'd experienced more than his share of tragedy along the way including experiencing childhood sexual abuse and the suicide of his wife and death of his newborn daughter. What started out as desperation turned into a life mission offering hope and healing to adults and children alike. Propes returned home from that first Tenderness Tour and set out to change his life and change the world. 30 years later, he's still traveling the roads at 2-3 miles per hour with at least one Tenderness Tour event every year, over 6,000 miles covered, and nearly one million dollars raised for organizations worldwide. Named as one of the 25 Best Wellness Books by Best Ever You, "The Hallelujah Life" is both a brutally honest story and a relentlessly inspiring journey of one man's search for tenderness and lifelong devotion to giving it to everyone he meets.