[Nfb-krafters-korner] not lack of sight

[River Woman]

I was just thinking of that - I am going to try to hook up with my friend, 
Marie,  who always went on the trips and I met here in Austria each year. 
She just retired and she is in Europe every summer, and I beg she would be 
game.    I am sending my great granddaughter on a trip next summer to 
Ireland, England, Wales, and Paris. She will be with a high school group - 
and that would be way too much stress for me these days. I have "bad eye" 
days and I get very tired if I am out and about too much.  Lynda

 From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] not lack of sight


> Lynda,
>
> You need to seek out another professor and hook up with her to  chaperone
> a trip.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 9/15/2013 4:33:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> riverwoman at zoominternet.net writes:
>
> Yes,  Joyce it is so true. Loss of independenc is the worst part of losing
> sight.  I live in a rural village there is no public transportation  of 
> any
> sort anywhere around here. So, unless you have someone who can take  you
> with
> them, you don't have any opportunities to be out. How I thank the  friends
> who have helped me.  the ohly place I can go by myself is to  walk across
> the
> creek on a bridge and walk the one mile circumfrance  around the next
> village.  I do this every evening with my two dogs.  It is 2 miles around
> and
> back home across the bridge.  For a person  who was used to leaving by
> myself
> and flying to Europe or any other place,  all the time, it has been an
> enormous challenge. I miss my summers in  Europe and the many other trips 
> I
> had each year as a professor with my  students. How I long to be back in
> Austria as I was every summer, but I do  not know anyone who would be 
> going
> and there are no family members who  go.  So, I am having a cup of TEA
> right
> now in an Austria china cup  with a hirsh on it (that is a deer) and I am
> dreaming of one day being  back again to see the people and places  I love
> so
> much. I still  believe it will happen for me, again, one day.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original  Message ----- 
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To:  <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013  4:04 PM
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] not lack of sight
>
>
>> My  greatest loss 16 years ago was not the loss of my sight it was the
> loss
>> of  INDEPENDENCE.
>>
>> From my friends I have met  and know through the National Federation of
> the
>> Blind  I have  learned how to regain most of my INDEPENDENCE back.  I
>>  learn
>> and gain a little each day.  Thanks to you and others like  you.
>>
>> Joyce  Kane
>> _www.KraftersKorner.org_  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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