[NFBMT] Is he really Disabled?

[Rik James]

Thanks for this story, it is a good one.
The thing I like about Clarence is.

It sounds to me like he always made lemonade.
I don't do that enough. I am going to work on that.

I was just reading my bluegrass magazine. There is this one man, who recently has died. 
In his story, they told how he came to be a good good friend of the North Carolina guitarist and singer, Doc Watson.

One time this man went down to Doc's place and was putting in some home improvements, a new bathroom I think it was they said. Well, after he had finished that, he was going outside, and there was Doc, up on the roof replacing shingles.

They said the deceased man had liked to tell that story. And he also told how one time he had called Doc on the phone. It was in more recent  years, when Doc's health was failing. He told Doc how much he meant to him. How he cared so much for him, and that he considered him a very great friend. Doc said that in his life, he considered that to be about the best thing anyone had ever told him.  And that he had few people he felt that way about.

I think in some ways, this business of people just relating to each other, and not necessarily always seeing the blindness first. That might be the best measure of blind awareness month. How many stories we can tell on one another. But gosh. We don't have to each of us crawl up on a roof. Maybe we just pick a little guitar, make some good sauerkraut, or even tend our own magic garden.  Just so along the way, we hear each other, with kindness.

Cheers,
Rik James
Bozeman
President of Treasure State Chapter
National Federation of the Blind of Montana