[Home-on-the-range] puzzleing out the NFB recipe...

[Dianne Hemphill]

Good morning NFBK federationists - this morning I had the time to listen to the May Monitor and found a couple of items to reflect on...a recipe that reflects and encompasses the NFB was once again shared, and goes a bit like this:

Ingredients:
1 cup each:
desire, determination, positive attitude,  involvement,  philosophy and history

Pour all into a chapter and/or division
Serve to all that want to live  the life they want.
Serves the entire affiliate.

With this reminder of what we are all about, the South Central Chapter presented a wonderful and unexpected gift to the Envision Early Childhood Development Center yesterday.  In fact we made a little production of this presentation during the Envision's monthly Adult Support Group in order to explain the both the importance of the gift and our commitment to our blind children's learning foundations. 

The gift is the awesome large and sturdy map-puzzle of the United States. This magnificent colorful, topographied map will help the children better understand the relationships of size, location and the historical challenges  of how our country was settled.  It will be of little surprise to those of  us that knew Dr. Kenneth Jernagan our second outstanding President and leader fostering the NFB philosophy and raising the bar of high expectations for the blind, as the designer of this magnificent learning tool. 

Affiliate president Tom Page, Chapter president Serena Nickell, Chapter Vice president Emily Schlanker, and Jack and Dianne Hemphill had the opportunity to both talk about why we wanted to give the Child Center this gift but also were able to talk a little about the NFB and how it changes lives.  We are looking forward to co-partnering with Envision on a BELL program sometime in the future. 
If you're up to it, I want to next talk a little aboutDick Davis's article about how some think of the disabled who also work are somewhat like"talking dogs". Dianne