[stylist] Sharing Memoir and question
Herrin, Amber R.
herrinar at muohio.edu
Thu Jul 19 14:57:42 UTC 2012
Lynda,
It is not mine; it is a quote from a contemporary Christian band who call
themselves Kutless.
The name of the song is "What Faith Can Do" and if you go to youtube, you
can type in "Kutless - What Faith Can Do" and listen to the entire thing.
HTH,
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: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:12 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing Memoir and question
Hi Amber,
Thanks so much for this great information! I have not used JAWS much, and so
this will be very helpful to me. I usually use ZoomText and then use the
JAWS reader with it to read my work back to me.
I would also lilke to comment on the quote at the end of your signature. Is
that your own quote? It is wonderful! I would like to pass this wisdom along
if you do not mind. Is that ok with you, if I pass this on to some blind
friends?
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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herrin, Amber R." <herrinar at muohio.edu>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:08 PM
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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