[Nfbmt] A ridiculous Question

[sheila]

i totally agree that if it were easy it would already have been done. I 
have no idea how long this will take but I do know that if and when the 
things that we stand for happen, all the work and time will have been 
well spent.
On 1/5/2014 12:19 PM, Bruce&Joy Breslauer wrote:
> I agree with you, Rik.
> I think this is going to be a long haul.
> I am reminded that a stream of water, given enough time, will wear away a
> channel in a rock.
> Progress may seem slow.
> But progress there will be.
> Many voices are louder than one.
> If we try, we may fail,
> But if we don't try, we will most certainly fail.
> I don't think we can afford to count our chickens before they hatch.
> Look what happened to the space available bill.
> I don't see a lot of room for optimism yet,
> But that makes the striving that much more important.
> If it were going to be easy, it would have already been done.
> Joy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rik James
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 10:55 AM
> To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
> Cc: James Karen
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] A ridiculous Question
>
> I am appreciating what the NFB legislative team is doing. I am looking
> forward to our trip to Washington, to be part of a collective voice to
> express our dismay and disgust at what is, and has been going on for much
> too long for our fellow blind persons.
>
> What we will ask them, the Congressional representatives to do is important.
>
> For us, together and for each of individually, I guess I feel like I need to
> get my head together and be informed.
>
> And to be able to boil it down into a few concise and understandable sound
> bytes. Because that is what we will have in the way of time.
>
> Go around the room, if you please, now, fellow Fedearationists.
>
> Speak your mind now amongst ourselves.
>
> Sing the Dress Rehearsal Rag.
> (Oops, sorry! I drifted in to my music world for a moment, with that Leonard
> Cohen song title.)
>
> What do you each know about the history of the minimum wage in America?
> In the general sense, I think this is valuable to understand.
>
> What are the big bullet points of that history, that have led us to right
> now in time?
>
> History. All around us. Surrounding us.
> And the role we play, today, in that history.
> The future and the present. Unraveling all of it.
> That is what occupies part of my mind, as I try and see about what I would
> like to be a part of in Washington at the end of this month.
>
> I wish I felt more optimistic. I have been following our Congress with
> horror and dismay in the years since last I went on this advocacy
> pilgrimage.
> And so it makes me rather a grim conversationalist, when sitting around
> talking. Because I worry that we are all of us, sighted, blind and whatever
> in a very rough patch for democratic principles, and anyone without a huge
> money sack of lobby professionals, controlling the pie slicing in America.
>
> But I let that rest. Are you glad?
>
> But here is the next little thing I have to say. That beyond those few
> moments with a congressmen or one of their staff, there will be time with
> one another, us in the National Federation of the Blind, from Montana, and
> other state affiliate members around the nation, once again. Anything is
> possible. Especially when we remain as we are, and continue to evolve and to
> work together.
>
> And that is also precious. Don't you think?
>
> I just am hoping now that by that time the weather will cooperate with us,
> too. For our travel needs. It will be what it will be. But I wish for it to
> be smooth sailing, smooth flying, and a waltz on concrete that is not so
> dreadfully slippery as it is here today in my home town.
>
> Peace Love Joy.
> And man the barricades. We will not go back.
> As Doctor Jernigan and others have chanted lo these decades now for our
> rights for equality and justice, and a fair shake at everything anyone with
> complete normal eyesight has.
>
> Rik
>
>
> .
>
>
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