[stylist] question

[Alan Wheeler]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 09:42
Subject: Re: [stylist] question


> If I remember correctly, I think I picked it up at convention a couple of 
> years ago.  It was at the Independence Market.  But it most definitely is 
> easier to be a lefty than to be blind.  It is awful awkward to open a can 
> with a right-handed can-opener.  I do appreciate what he was trying to say 
> and he is right.  All we can do is keep plodding down the road and make it 
> smoother for those who come behind.  For all we know, maybe we're still just 
> the steamrollers which are flattening out that road.  Or are we to the point 
> of the painter who puts the lines down?  Building things by hand one block 
> at a time can take a long time if you are doing it right.  But, you know, we 
> all take one step forward and two steps back sometimes.  Some of us go two 
> steps forward and one step back, wouldn't we all like to be that way.  For 
> what one builds for years can be destroyed in the blink of an eye.
> Now where was I really going with this E-mail?
> Barbara
> 
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:20 PM
> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] question
> 
>> You need to read the Left Handed Dissertation!   Dr. Jernigan may have
>> delivered this as a banquet speech.   It's wonderful.   Anyone know how to 
>> find it?
>> Is it on the nfb website?
>> Lori
>> In a message dated 3/24/09 12:34:00 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:
>>
>>
>>> One of my kids is left handed. She uses left handed scissors, holds a pen
>>> in her left hand and I was never able to teach her how to crochet. She 
>>> just
>>> does things differently. She is an accomplished woman with a beautiful
>>> family. So she does things differently. Bottom line is that she does what
>>> she has to or wants to. Is she part off an "ism"? Should extra funds be
>>> made avaiolable to her because she is not right handed? If she baked a
>>> cookie would you refuse to eat it because someone left handed made it? Or
>>> would you feel benevolent because you ate the cookie in spite of
>>> "disabilities"? There are some societies where if they see a child 
>>> favoring
>>> their left hand they tie the hand behind the child's back so they will be
>>> forced to use the right hand. In some countries if a person is caught
>>> stealing they cut off the right hand. Society has enslaved our mores. 
>>> Just
>>> be human, John. What more can anyone expect from you? Judith
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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