[Nfb-krafters-korner] not lack of sight

[Henrietta Brewer]

This aging is for the birds.
On Sep 15, 2013, at 4:52 PM, River Woman wrote:

> 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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