[stylist] learning Braille for the wrong reasons?

John Lee Clark johnlee at clarktouch.com
Thu Feb 5 18:57:10 UTC 2009 

April:

Does it feature blind characters?  There are a few children's books
publishers who have readily accepted stories featuring deaf and deaf-blind
characters, and my wife knows most of them, being an illustrator.  And I am
a content consultant for one of them.

Let me know what your story is about, and I may have good ideas.  

John

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of April Enderton
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] learning Braille for the wrong reasons?

Hi Writers:

I am wanting to get a children's book published.  It is a small chapter
book, probably for kids grades 3 to 6.  Any thoughts on where I begin?

April


-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of James Canaday M.A. N6YR
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 4:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] learning Braille for the wrong reasons?

well,
I just thought I'd ask, Robert's sense of humor is quite sneaky, in my
humble opinion.
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 01:03 PM 2/4/2009, you wrote:
>Jim:
>
>Of course it was a pun.  Because the story is NOT touching in the OTHER 
>sense of that word!
>
>John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>Behalf Of James Canaday M.A. N6YR
>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:16 AM
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>Subject: Re: [stylist] learning Braille for the wrong reasons?
>
>okay Robert,
>did you intend the pun?
>jc
>
>Jim Canaday M.A.
>Lawrence, KS
>
>At 04:22 AM 2/4/2009, you wrote:
> >John, that was a very --- touching story. In the school for the blind 
> >where I attended, we too learned more then one form of brailling.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Robert Leslie Newman
> >Email- newmanrl at cox.net
> >THOUGHT PROVOKER Website-
> >Http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> >On Behalf Of John Lee Clark
> >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:10 PM
> >To: 'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'
> >Subject: Re: [stylist] learning Braille for the wrong reasons?
> >
> >Hey:
> >
> >When I went to my files, I realized that Ii had written something 
> >about
>this
> >a while ago.  I just played a little with it, and here goes:
> >
> >You can't blame me for remembering my early lessons in Braille.  I 
> >loved these sessions.  The teacher gave candy.  The exercises were 
> >fun, like games.  But the thing that excited me the most about this 
> >class, conducted in a small room away from the rest of the school, 
> >was having a pretty girl as my sole classmate.
> >
> >The girl, as I did, had Usher syndrome.  It was through our sharing 
> >these sessions in Braille that we established a strangely furtive yet 
> >sturdy ongoing relationship that lasted well into our high school 
> >years.  Although we had our other puppy loves and silly romantic 
> >affiliations, we considered each other our "Usher mate," our most 
> >important relationship, and it didn't matter what other ties we made or
broke.  We were our secret default love.
> >
> >Now, our teacher was a kindly if eccentric hearing sighted woman who 
> >was a classic example of that type of female teacher of the Deaf, all 
> >too
>familiar
> >to the signing community, who would confess everything to her 
> >students.  It was almost as if the students were supposed to be her 
> >shrinks, and the classes she taught were actually therapy sessions.  
> >Problems poured out of the poor woman, problems about her husband, 
> >her in-laws, her ailments, her car, her children, her taxes, her 
> >life.  This type of teacher never found anything odd about a circle 
> >of Deaf children gaping at her, but instead she drew great solace in
this.
> >
> >Sitting opposite us two--with Perkins Braillers, slates, styli, and 
> >paper between us on the table-the teacher went into confession mode 
> >at least
>twice
> >every single session.  Whenever she launched into a litany of her 
> >woes, we settled our chins on an arm on the table, and we gaped 
> >appropriately at her from this position.  Our respective free hands 
> >under the table, out of the teacher's view, would then begin to explore.
> >
> >This was how I learned the lovely Braille, the textured poetry of 
> >secret parts.  And whenever our teacher winded down after a long 
> >narrative, we hastily withdrew our fondling hands and smiled sweetly 
> >at her.  But feeling guilty and wanting to make private amends, we 
> >were very attentive and serious about the lessons.  Thus, we made 
> >good progress in the fine points of the lesser Braille of the
raised-dots-on-paper kind.
> >
> >One time we were almost caught.  While the teacher was spilling her 
> >beans about the evils of taxes, my hand was reading some interesting 
> >Braille underneath a piece of garment fringed with an elastic band.  
> >But then the teacher abruptly came to her senses, and I pulled my 
> >hand out too quickly, snapping the elastic band.  I didn't hear the 
> >sound, but our teacher's head jerked to one side and held it at a 
> >tilt.  My mind scrambling, I wriggled and tugged my pants for 
> >dramatic effect before I asked if I could go to the bathroom.  She 
> >smiled understanding and nodded her permission, and she thought no more
of what she'd heard.
> >
> >My dual lessons continued that year without any hitch, and to this 
> >day I find what I learned from both to be of great value.  I doubt 
> >that I would have made such rapid progress in either education without
the other.
> >
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