Skip to content
  • Happy Health
  • Happy Mindset
  • Animal Wonders
  • About Us
    • Team
  • Subscribe
Menu
  • Happy Health
  • Happy Mindset
  • Animal Wonders
  • About Us
    • Team
  • Subscribe
Happy News

How This Couple Communicates Without Words Or Signs

Sarah Jane Parsons became paralyzed from the shoulders down after a car accident when she was 20 years old during a camping trip to Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota with her then boyfriend and sister but decades later she found love with Jimmy Turner a 71 year old deaf artist who reads lips and created a unique form of communication mixing American Sign Language and American Indian Sign Language. The 61 year old artist who paints by holding brushes in her mouth says Turner’s language is really intuitive to her and she tries to mimic with her body and face as much as she can the signs that he has created for their own private way of talking that transcends traditional communication. In 2012 the couple brought their families together in Portland Maine to celebrate their relationship in what they describe as a Forever Love Celebration marking their commitment to each other after bumping into each other multiple times before dating.

Parsons was recently selected as one of twelve artists featured in the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists 2026 calendar chosen from hundreds of entries with Turner telling her you’re famous now when she shared the exciting news of her selection. The multi talented woman first started painting in law school and says the craft is special because it’s one thing she didn’t have to relearn in a new way post accident since she can work from her memories of when she was able bodied. Both artists laugh about being in a relationship with another creative saying they joke about how they’re not both supposed to be poor artists but here they are with their artistic spirits forming one of the deep bonds that tie them to each other across twenty years together.

PrevPreviousHow Shadow The Cat Survived The Canadian Wilderness
NextMeet The Service Dogs Trained At Illinois PrisonNext

Recent Articles

Happy News

Scientists May Have Finally “Seen” Dark Matter

May 9, 2026

For nearly a century, dark matter has been one of the greatest mysteries in all of science. We know it exists as it makes up an estimated 85% of the universe’s total mass and acts as invisible gravitational scaffolding holding galaxies together, but no one has ever directly observed it.

Read More
Happy News

Coral Reefs Are Hiding An Almost Entirely Unstudied Universe Of Potential Medicine

May 9, 2026

Scientists at the University of Galway and an international consortium have discovered that coral reefs contain an almost entirely unstudied universe of microbial life, publishing a study in Nature that reconstructed the genomes of 645 microbial species from 99 coral reefs across 32 Pacific islands, with more than 99 percent

Read More
Happy News

A Rare Superbloom Is Turning Part Of Redwood National Park Purple And There Are Only Weeks To See It

May 9, 2026

Something extraordinary and fleeting is happening right now in Northern California, where the Bald Hills grasslands above the redwood canopy in Redwood National Park have erupted into a rare lupine superbloom, turning a stretch of elevated landscape off a remote road near Orick into a sweeping sea of purple, blue,

Read More
« Previous Next »
  • Privacy Notice
  • Accessibility Notice
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
  • Unsubscribe
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice
  • Accessibility Notice
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
  • Unsubscribe
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2026 HappyNews.