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Wed Dec 7 17:19:51 UTC 2016

Were my directions that difficult?  Lol  

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> On Dec 7, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Rik James via Nfbmt <nfbmt at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Weaving through all of that is tiresome.
> If the Times want to sue me, they can.
> Here is marc's letter below.
> I was glad to see his letter.
> I just re-read the Hoagland piece yesterday.
> Thanks, Joy for alerting me to our national president's letter.
> I don't yet know which edition it is in our Newsline edition of the paper.
> But here is how I found it. I put Riccobono and Hoagland in the Search
> field, and the New York Times came up quickly.
> 
> I hope there will be more letters!
> Rik
> 
> November 29, 2016 
> Letter to the Editor
> 
> To the Editor:
> 
> Re "Feeling My Way Into Blindness" (Disability series, Sunday Review, Nov.
> 20):
> 
> My heart went out to Edward Hoagland when I read his essay. I remember that
> I once let blindness make me a passenger in my own life. That changed when I
> encountered a vast network of other blind people who convinced me that
> blindness did not define me, who taught me nonvisual ways to handle everyday
> and not-so-everyday tasks, and encouraged me to expect more of myself.
> 
> Without that experience, I might still live in fear of hurting myself or
> breaking things when I walk down the sidewalk, and I might regularly
> mismatch my shoes and socks.
> 
> I am now a successful blind man married to a blind woman, living a rich,
> full life with her and our three children, and serving as president of the
> National Federation of the Blind, a membership organization of tens of
> thousands of blind people.
> 
> So my next correspondence will be to Mr. Hoagland, to offer him the love and
> support from an extended blind family that changed my life and can change
> his.
> 
> MARK RICCOBONO
> 
> Baltimore
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bruce&Joy
> Breslauer via Nfbmt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 11:00 AM
> To: 'NFB of Montana Discussion List' <nfbmt at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Bruce&Joy Breslauer <breslauerj at gmail.com>
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> If you go to www.nfb.org and click on the link under "what's new", you will
> find President Riccobono Responds to The New York Times Essay on Blindness.
> Click on that link and it will take you to the responses in the New York
> Times.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Edward Robbins
> via Nfbmt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 10:53 AM
> To: 'NFB of Montana Discussion List'
> Cc: Edward Robbins
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] on nfb.org
> 
> Joy,
>    Question?  Do we have to go to the N Y Times to see this?
> Ted
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of President, NFB of
> Montana via Nfbmt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 9:28 AM
> To: nfbmt
> Cc: President, NFB of Montana
> Subject: [Nfbmt] on nfb.org
> 
> Read President Riccobono's response to an essay by blind author Edward
> Hoagland in The New York Times. The President and others responded with
> compassion
> 
> and hope to Mr. Hoagland's despairing assessment of his condition, affirming
> the ability of all blind people to live the lives we want.
> 
> 
> 
> Joy Breslauer, President
> 
> National Federation of the Blind of Montana
> 
> Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/>
> 
> 
> 
> Live the life you want
> 
> 
> 
> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
> between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
> blindness is not what holds you back.
> 
> 
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