[nfbwatlk] What do you think about this?

[Becky Frankeberger]

Grr, the old falsehood if you have even a touch of sight you are a better
cook, housekeeper, business person, factory worker, student, traveler,
handler, cane user etc etc.  As an observer of people, I can testify that is
false. It is totally an individual set of learned techniques and some
instinctual knowing.  

When I was in rehab, in the stone age, in PA, there was a table for the
totally blind, the partially sighted, and the high partials.  Now I asked
about that and the rehab folks just told me that is where people gravitated
to their friends.  Thus, I sat with everyone and observed. My friends were a
mixture and we ended up sitting in the far end of the room. Who were these
fine folks: those who lost there vision in adulthood, partials low partials,
and high partials, all funny as get out. but we all had commonalities, a
love of life, a curiosity about life, eexperiential curiosity, story tellers
etc. That last week of rehab with these fine folks was the best time of my
life, well to that point, smile. Ron didn't need his sight any longer to
play the drumbs and guitar in his band. Eddie had to relearn how to run his
dad's ranching business, after his accident at nineteen.  using other
techniques.Linn lost her vision totally to diabetes. She was going back to
her business.Us two low partials had no clue what we wanted to do, both at
nineteen years old, but these fine folks gave us incredible hope, incredible
drive to be more then these rehab folks thought we could be   
  

Becky 
Butterfly Knitting
b.butterfly at comcast.net
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Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 7:58 PM
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Subject: [nfbwatlk] What do you think about this?

Hi all, I'm just reading my weekly edition of Syndicated Columnists Weekly.
The article that I was reading is the Republican Brain Drain by Richard
Cohen.  My comment is not the whole article, just a sentence of it.  Here is
that sentence, and please don't get hung up on the Romney part, that's not
my point.  
This sentence is my point: He is his party's nominee because, like the
one-eyed man in the valley of the blind, he is just the best of the worst.
Okay, you may say well, he's using the word blind as a metaphor, but I'm not
sure I see it that way.  
Wondering what you all think.

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