[stylist] Sharing Memoir and question
Ashley Bramlett
bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 19 02:54:06 UTC 2012
I get confused in those darn ribbons. it takes longer to go through them. I
loved simple menus!
Oh, well, I'm getting used to them as I use office 2010.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda Lambert
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:31 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing Memoir and question
I know what you mean, Jackie. Using the "ribbon" started for me before I
lost my sight - so I have a bit of visual memory for it - but I still get
LOST using it. Sometimes, I just get tired of the learning curve, and just
quit.
I copied the instructions that Amber wrote into a word document and can then
refer to them another day when I need them. I saved it under "Instructions
for Word" and that way I can remember better - lol
Thanks again Amber! Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacqueline Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing Memoir and question
> Amber,
> You have been kind to give a short cut to getting the word count. For me,
> it
> is overwhelming and underlies why I am hesitant to get on my new computer.
> When I receive lengthy discussions and steps to accomplish what have
> heretofore been simple tasks, and hear statements like, "you will see
> icons," I find it hard to believe that you are blind, or have severe
> visual
> loss.
> I am grateful, and will save this in my folder of lessons, but I am
> wondering if to learn JAWS 12, and Word 7, I will have to go through
> numerous tutorials that are just as complicated to follow auditorily.
> I guess I am just interested in knowing how you all have done it, that is
> making the transition, without having lessons with someone.
> I know it would be possible, if I would just stop writing to deadlines.
> Since you are a student, Amber, perhaps you meet these kind of concerns
> regularly, and might share your insights.
> Jackie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Herrin, Amber R.
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:09 PM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing Memoir and question
>
> Linda,
>
> Though the question has already been answered about how to find the word
> count, I would like to take a moment to show you how to add the function
> to
> a quick access toolbar, which will allow you to forget all day long as
> long
> as you know how to get to the toolbar.
>
> 1-Open MS Word
> 2-press Alt plus R for review, and navigate using the tab key to word
> count
> 3-press applications key (if desktop, located just to the left of the
> right-hand control key), or, if using a laptop or netbook of some kind,
> press shift plus f10
> 4-You should hear your screen reader say "Add to quick access toolbar"
> 5-press enter on this
>
> Now to utilize it whenever you are anywhere in word, you will:
>
> 1-press the alt key by itself
> 2-You will hear the screen reader announce whatever ribbon you were last
> on
> 3-Arrow left or right, according to your preference, or whichever will
> return you to the home ribbon the quickest.
> 4-arrow up from the home tab
> 5-you should see any items placed in the quick access toolbar. You may
> arrow left and right to navigate through these.
> 6-Whenever you reach the desired icon, press enter to execute its
> function.
>
> A few notes:
>
> 1-You can add almost anything from the ribbons to this particular toolbar;
> the list will just grow. There is a limit, though it is late here, and I
> am
> exhausted, so forgive that I do not at this moment, recall what that limit
> is. Be assured that it is a very large number.
> 2-When you arrow up to access the toolbar, I indicated that you can arrow
> left and right to access the icons located here. This is accurate, but
> you
> must use caution when first accessing it, as arrowing left may take you
> onto
> what your screen reader will call "office button" and then indicate that
> it
> is a "dropdown" in a grid. You may arrow right again, which will place
> you
> back on the home ribbon, at which point you may arrow up to reach the
> access
> toolbar again.
> 3-There are other ways to access the toolbar, but for the sake of less
> confusion, I have only indicated one here. Please know that I am by no
> means, claiming that this is the best or quickest or most used way etc. I
> am only describing a method that might be used. Feel free to use other
> methods if others are taught or described for you.
> 4-Finally! Anyone with questions can feel free to ask me off list about
> them. I am happy to help in any way I am able.
>
> Hoping this helps,
>
> Amber R. Herrin
> ATI Student in Training 2012
> World Services for the Blind
> Mobile: (513) 593-5855
> E-mail: herrinar at muohio.edu
> 2811 Fair Park Boulevard
> Little Rock, AR 72204
> "It doesn't matter what you've heard
> Impossible is not a word
> It's just a reason
> For someone not to try
>
> Everybody's scared to death
> When they decide to take that step
> Out on the water
> It'll be alright
>
> Life is so much more
> Than what your eyes are seeing
> You will find your way
> If you keep believing"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:18 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing Memoir and question
>
> OK, I will ask this question - I know I should KNOW this, but, how do I
> find
> the "word count" for my writing?
>
> I will copy and paste a short memoir I have worked on today. I am writing
> a
> series of memoirs about a Great Grandmother's Memories - her reflections
> on
> Art and Memory. This is the first of the "Silent Discourses." In this one,
> the storyteller speaks of a memory shared by the Great Grandmother. The
> recollections of the Great Grandmother on her childhood and her love of
> nature and secrets of the Earth.
> It should move from the storyteller, to the memories of the grandmother,
> back and forth, as in the way memories come to us - in layers, shifting,
> and
> moving.
>
> In my work there is almost never a chronological time line - so don't
> expect
> it. Life shifts and moves and comes and goes like the ebbing of the
> Caribbean waters as one stands on the beach. That is how I approach
> writing.
>
>
> I very greatly would appreciate any feedback you can give me on this, any
> suggestions for improvement, or anything else you can offer to me on it. I
> consider every comment carefully.
>
> I really appreciate feedback. In fact, because of the great feedback I
> received from a group of writers on another site, my poem "Flotsom,
> Jetsom,
> and the River" was selected in the NFB writing contest. The group had told
> me it was too vague - so I set to work to figure out what I needed to do
> to
> make it stronger and then I submitted it to the contest. Without their
> good
> critique this poem would have been too vague, I am sure, to be considered.
>
> Thanks, Lynda
>
> Here is the Memoir:
>
> ____________________
>
> Silent Discourse: Reflections on Art and Memory
>
> By Lynda Lambert
>
>
>
>
>
> Silent Discourse #1
>
>
>
>
>
> Memories of her summer days in Western Pennsylvania seemed to silently
> move
> in the thoughts of the Great Grandmother today as she thought of the
> little
> girl who stood alone, surrounded by a yellow-green world.
>
>
>
> Great Grandmother's memory was taking her back to a distant summer day
> in
> western Pennsylvania. She thought it must have been in the late 1940s
> because she was so very young at that time. The little girl was sensitive
> to the natural world of trees, flowers, birds, grasses, and the brilliant
> blue sky. She loved to be outdoors in all kinds of weather but summer
> time
> was particularly pleasant because she did not have to wear shoes. She
> could
> splash through the falling rain as it saturated her clothing and made her
> long auburn hair stick to her wet shoulders. She liked to stomp down with
> her bare feet, into the puddles of cool squishy water in the yard. Her
> toes moved about on the wet ground, and it felt so good to her!
>
>
>
> On sunny days, she climbed into the back yard walnut tree quickly and
> liked to hide amid the foliage to survey the entire world of her deep
> green
> grassy yard. From there, she could watch her father working in his
> gardens.
> There were two of them, separated by a path down the middle. When she
> thinks
> about her father, in her mind's memory book, he is always laboring in his
> garden and bringing fresh vegetables to the house for their dinners.
> Father
> brought other delights, too. There were rabbits and squirrels, wild game
> birds , and deer. All were brought by the Father for his family. There
> were
> fresh fruits, too, from his trees. And, chickens from the chicken coop
> behind the gardens.Great Granmother's favorite gift that was gathered by
> her
> Father was the assortment of fresh mushrooms he gathered in the woods. He
> knew exactly what each mushroom was, and exactly when each would be ready
> for picking. He was a woodsman who knew the ways of the woods and brought
> the bounty of the w oods home to feed his family of four children. There
> was always plenty to eat because of her Father's skills in hunting and
> gathering.
>
>
>
> If she was not high up in a tree, then she might be found in the gardens,
> making trails and roads through the dark rich soil. She liked to play
> there
> in the dirt with her dump trucks and brightly painted metal cars. She was
> a
> little girl who did not play with baby dolls or have tea parties with her
> friends. She read about little girls who liked those things in the books
> she
> read from the library. She enjoyed reading about the tea parties and the
> adventures of little girls in the books. But, that was not really her
> world.
> It was the Earth that she connected with. The Earth in all it's many
> manifestations was her muse from the earliest days of her life.
>
>
>
> Great Grandmother was in her late 60s and she still loved the Earth. She
> liked to feel it in her hands. She liked to sit on it, and lay on it
> under
> the trees in the shade. Her children would often lay there on the Earth
> with
> her and they would laugh and tell stories, and dream together. It felt so
> good to lay there, fixed onto the surface of the earth like a magnet. She
> taught the children that the Earth was a Positive charge, and that people
> were a negative charge. It was necessary to join their bodies with the
> Earth's surface for them to be complete. Just like a set of magnets, the
> positive and the negative charge have to be together for the magnet to
> work
> properly.
>
>
>
> Great Grandmother believed it was probably mid-July when she reflected on
> it because the days were smoldering and languid because the sun was high
> in
> the sky very early in the mornings that particular summer. The days were
> so
> intense and hot that her skin felt sticky all the time. Her hair felt wet
> from sweating as she played in the trees that summer afternoon. She was
> aware of the stifling heat of the early afternoon. The child's stature
> was
> quite small as she stood beneath the large leather-textured tree. She was
> small, but very strong. Neighbors often said she was athletic and wild.
>
>
>
> She had glanced up into its gnarled branches, with their downward
> movement
> towards the earth. They reached out in every direction over her head.
> This
> hulking giant was her favorite Apple tree - a protective, sheltering
> hide-away. This ancient Apple tree stood just behind Mr. Corbin's gray
> concrete block garage. As Great Grandmother recalled, it was the only
> tree
> that stood in her neighbor's yard. She could not say that there were
> no
> other trees, but it is this giant one that was remembered. It must have
> been very old and looking back on the scene through the lens of memory. It
> seemed to her to stand as a sentinel to separate the garage from the rows
> of garden plants. But,Great Grandmother
>
> knew for sure that even as this tree separated and divided Mr. Corbin's
> back
> yard it was also the connection between Heaven and Earth. It was the
> space
> between Here and There; between the Present moment and the Future. The
> tree stands in her childhood memory as a vertical division in a horizontal
> verdant landscape - an axis mundi.
>
>
>
>
>
> The Great Grandmother knew then just as sure as she knows now about
> secret things.
>
> She has always known about hidden things and what they mean. She knew
> about the life inside of rocks, and the tears that were there. She knows
> about the silent and quiet things that most people never see. Some people
> call Great Grandmother a "seer." But she really cannot see because she is
> now blind. Great Grandmother talked about seeing wit her inner eyes. She
> calls this her "intuition." She says she sees the very special places that
> people with good eyesight have never seen.
>
>
>
> The secret places are all tucked away in her memories. One by one, over
> the
> years, she will share them with her children and her grand children and
> even
> now, today, she shares this memory with her Great Grand-daughter. It is
> the
> Great Grandmother who is the Storyteller. Just like the Griot in an
> African
> village, Great Grandmother is the One who preserves the memories for the
> family and tells the stories that will give them the information they will
> need on their journey in life. She holds the secrets in her memory until
> the
> time is right.
>
> 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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