[stylist] Art is God's Voice

Fri Feb 10 18:10:45 UTC 2012

Wow!  You led quite an exciting life!  I'm sure it was devastating to lose 
your sight ... and that quickly.

Within your memories is definitely the stuff for many writings.
Your loss of sight may have taken much, but the one thing you never lost was 
the knowledge you acquired.
Keep up the good work.
Barbara

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynda Lambert
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 8:15 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Art is God's Voice

Good Morning Jackie,
thanks for your comments on my poem (in a separate email) and on my website.
I agree with the comments that I need to change the last thought in the
poem, as some others have suggested. I am THINKING about it.
You know how that is - things just stick in your mind until you know what to
do next. I was in that state of mind all night long, as I was thinking about
making pottery today, and thinking about HOW I would do it. Going over and
over the process in my subconscious mind - maddening! lol

My website and blogs:
I had very extensive knowlege about how to do websites and blogs BEFORE
sight loss. I had two blogs and have had this website for many years. (I am
a former professor of Fine Arts and Humanities, at Geneva College, Beaver
Falls, PA)

I had two other blogs before this one. I wrote about one of my passions,
knitting. I did it for relaxation and to share information/patterns/finished
projects on the blogs.
It was a nice getaway from my professional life -

My website? I have been an actively exhibiting fine artist for well over 35
years. The website was where I shared images of my paintings, wood cut
prints, upcoming show information, and my travel/study trips to Europe every
summer. The website was a recruiting tool for that program. I lived in the
Alps in austria every summer until 2008 (I lost my sight in the fall of
2007). I took college students to Austria for a month every summer. While
there I worked in my art studio in a village outside of Salzburg. I taught
classes every morning Monday - Thursday until noon. Our class worked in the
studio, and each day we took trips all over the area and did writing and art
at a different location every day. On weekends, I took the students to a
different country - Italy for the Redintore Festival every year in July.
Czech Republic, where we visited small villages and of course, Prague.
Germany, many many places in Germany including Hamburg, Luneburg, Munich,
and more.

This is how I knew HOW to make a website - through marketing my own art and
my Drawing and Writing in Salzburg courses.

When I lost my sight - overnight - I was completely LOST. For five months I
really sat in a chair and listened to Public Radio as I did not know how to
do anyting at all. My husband brought me books on CDs from the local
library - I was completely LOST and no one knew what to do with me.  It took
five months of very hard work to learn that there was such a thing as rehab
for blind people - and finally, after an existance that was meaningless, I
got to go to a rehab center in Pittsburgh.

There, I learned that I could do things again. But the realization that I
had in an instant gone from teaching and lecturing on a very high level, and
had plunged to a level that was less than kindergarden became very clear to
me. You were so right about the LEARNING CURVE - it is the steepest learning
curve I have ever experienced, just to begin to live again and do the most
basic things. I was at the center for 15 weeks, and did very well. I still
had no computer skills, and that took another year or two for me to begin to
work on the computer again...It was two years before I could start that blog
that you saw. And, I can now post things on my website, do photos, and list
exhibitions as I need to have them there.

Everything about me and my life was VISUAL. I am a visual learner, a visual
thinker, and a visual person. I still am! Sight loss has greatly altered how
I see things, but it still has to be visual for me to "get it." My weakest
area was always learning anything through listening. Even when I attended a
lecture, or read a book, I had a pencil in my hand and I was writing -
making it all VISUAL.  I still have to find ways to make what I hear into an
image in my mind - so I can remember it or learn new things. That will not
change - it is my core. For me, a poem is first a visual work of art. It has
form, shape, and organization. And, each poetry book is a work of art, first
of all. I collect books by Contemporary poets, especially American poets. My
library walls are filled with books of contemporary poetry - and in my mind
it is fine art. It is visual both in appearance and when we listen to the
words. I am crazy about post modern poetry and literature - I used to teach
it at the college.

Well, I did not know I would write such a long post, but you asked, so I
answered. After all, I am used to doing lectures so I LILKE to  discuss
things of interest.  lol
Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacqueline Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Art is God's Voice

> Linda,
> What an inspiring website. Who helped you with your website? It is hard to
> imagine accomplishing this with  no or low vision.   I would say that you
> are a     speed-learner.
> Are you familiar with Reiki? Just thinking about how beautiful the symbols
> would be if done in beading. Though they are not made available to an
> untrained practitioner.
> Jackie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:24 AM
> To: Zgal at Zoominternet.net
> Subject: [stylist] Art is God's Voice
>
> Hi Friends,
> Just published a new blog article this morning.
> You might enjoy it.
>
> http://walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com/2012/02/art-is-gods-voice.html
>
> We are getting some nice snow here this morning. It is so refreshing. Bob
> and I walked through the woods along the creek this morning - such a
> beautiful day!
>
> Lynda
>
>
> Lynda Lambert
> 104 River Road
> Ellwood City, PA 16117
>
> 724 758 4979
>
> My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
> My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com
>
>
>
>
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