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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>You are likely familiar with the face of today’s blind person in need. She is the single mother trying to navigate this new world of distance learning for her children. He is the recent immigrant struggling to find employment. She is the senior citizen trying to come to grips with her recent loss of sight. They all share a mutual pursuit of the two things that are not always readily available: information and understanding. In our current climate, you do not need reminders of the terrible state of affairs. You need strength. On the afternoon of Saturday, October 31, we will build it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Join me for a couple of hours of exploring everyday struggle. From stories of divorce to sudden sight loss, from chronic health conditions to losing loved ones in the pandemic, these are not your typical snapshots of successful blind heroes. They are winning, but it took, and in some cases is still taking, enormous willpower to prevail. Grit is so much more than self-confidence. It is raw vulnerability and authenticity, and through strategically spoken speakers, videos, and interactive exercises, you will learn to embrace it all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ProspectusRegular",serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Our keynote speaker is one of the FBI’s most prominent treasures. He was one of my instructors at the FBI Academy and helped shape me into the quiet storm I am today. Frank Marsh is a communication analyst and a former Marine Corps intelligence officer. As a trainer for the Department of Justice’s National Drug Intelligence Center, he taught special agents, intelligence analysts, police officers, and investigators from around the world the power of effective communication. Always entertaining and adept at actively engaging his audience, Frank is a frequent presenter to corporations, associations, and universities on effective communication, and detecting deception. He is a certified handwriting analyst, served three years in the well-known Behavioral Analysis Unit, and has been featured on the History Channel’s “Secrets of Body Language.” Frank looks forward to delivering a presentation on</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%'> <b>Struggle, Service & Success - Pain, Passion & Purpose. </b>The goal for this presentation is to gain <span style='color:red'>insight </span>on how the thoughts we think and the words we speak have a direct connection on our determination, discernment and endurance.</span> Insight is the appropriate word to describe this presentation as the definition for Insight is a <span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%'>penetrating mental vision or discernment; faculty of seeing into inner character or underlying <span style='color:red'>truth</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%'>This is a rare opportunity you will not want to miss. Please forward to anyone, blind or sighted, you feel could benefit. In order to hit the ground running, please check into the Zoom session on the appointed day at least ten minutes ahead of 2 PM. To register for this and many other exciting opportunities as part of the NFB of Virginia convention, please follow the link below. The final day for early registration is this Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%'>http://nfbv.org/registration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe Orozco, Convention Arrangements<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>