[Nfbmt] on nfb.org

Rik James rixmix2009 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 18:36:20 UTC 2016 

I don't know.
I did not find a What's New link when searching for it on the NFB home page,
while using the Link Search in JAWS.
And that home page has a ton of stuff to go through.
My patience maybe is a bit short. I am sure it was there if you said it was!
Ha ha.

Please take no offense, Joy.
I really was glad to know about the letters to the editor.

Rik

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joy Breslauer via
Nfbmt
Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:20 AM
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Cc: Joy Breslauer <breslauerj at gmail.com>
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Were my directions that difficult?  Lol  

Sent from my iPhone

> 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>
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] on nfb.org
> 
> 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
> 
> EDWARD C "TED" ROBBINS, E-MAIL:  ecrobbins517 at gmail.com CEO MBEI, 
> Treasurer NFB of Montana & MANAGER MAB EQUIPMENT PROGRAM PHONE & FAX:  
> 406 453 6678,
> CELL:  406 799 6268
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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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