[Nfb-krafters-korner] Partially OT: Origami and NFB State ConHighlights

[Ramona Walhof]

Terrence, both of those things are interesting.  Are you from Alaska?  For 
some reason, I thought you were from the East somewhere.  The secrets of 
email....

Ramona
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terrence van Ettinger" <terrencevane at gmail.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:36 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Partially OT: Origami and NFB State 
ConHighlights


> Hello there!
>  We had our state NFB convention today and I just had to share a few 
> highlights, one crafting-related and the other just plain awesome! So I'll 
> start with the crafting stuff first. '-)
> As some of you may know, I pretty much need to be always doing 
> *SOMETHING*. Well of course, these conventions tend to have a lot of 
> sitting in one place just listening for quite a while. My solution: 
> origami. I brought a fair bit of origami material with me, and one crane 
> that I finished up first thing while I was there that became a door prize. 
> It was most of a piece of wide Braille paper, with "nfbak" brailled on it 
> over and over again, filling the page. I finished that one fairly quickly, 
> and continued on with other various and sundry models. By the time pizza 
> and karaoke came around, I had a couple boxes, a few cranes, a  swan, and 
> a few pyramids all sitting out in front of me. The kids were all intrigued 
> with it all, and one asked me for a fortune teller, another wanted a 
> square box with a lid. By the end of the evening, I suggested to our 
> chapter president that this might be an activity to do in conjunction with 
> the parents' division. So I'll probably be talking to the local NOPBC 
> chapter president about doing an origami session. '-)
> Now, the not-quite-crafting-related awesomeness: The same NOPBC president 
> I was just referring to, along with her sixth-grade daughter, came up with 
> the idea to have a community service project at convention. So after 
> lunch, we all trooped a short way down the hall to where an assembly line 
> was set up, and made I have no idea HOW many supply bags to share with the 
> homeless of our state...socks, granola bar, crackers, juice, etc. Stuff 
> that could easily be carried, say, on a bus trip, in a car, etc. and 
> offered to people in need. I know for a fact that there were *WAY* more 
> bags than there were people, because I was able to take a large paper 
> shopping bag full of them for when I'm walking around in some of the areas 
> I frequent that have a fair-sized homeless population. And the youth were 
> all enthusiastic about the project from start to finish! It was inspiring 
> to stand there, working with a whole group of blind folks from across the 
> state, all ages and walks of life, working to make even a brief difference 
> in the lives of people in need. It's definitely one convention agenda item 
> I'm not going to forget!!
>
> Terrence, wowed but ready to sleep.
>
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