[stylist] The Erasure

[Jackie Williams]

Eve, I am honored with your remarks on my poem. You shared some of your own
experience to do this which I much appreciate.
You are so right about erasures starting very early in many lives.
I was a teacher of children with multiple handicaps, and learning
disabilities for about thirty years. Every day I saw emotional erasures,
physical erasures, and mental erasures either already there, or developing
steadily with no apparent cause.
You are so right, that what we all can do is introduce the enriching
environment  and faith to help one to move steadily ahead. Like the NFB, of
course.
Thank you for your work. 

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 


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Jackie and All, I wanted to be sure to comment on this poem. I did not
wholely understand the  explained process, but that mattered little. The
finished product that you shared was so deeply beautiful. It could be felt
from within as a solid truth.
I hear the music and want to dance, but the knees and the balance do not
cooperate the way they did in my past, and the way they still do in my
mind. Thank you for this glimpse into reality. It makes many of us feel
less alone as we experiencce our own erasures of ability and senses.
And a quick note to those who have not yet experienced any of this... Great
age is not  needed to do so. Erasures start in what some of us consider
youth, or at least middle age. It depends on your style of living and your
own experiences, so take heart in the renewal that comes from the losses.
Again to Jackie, thank you for sharing.
Eve
 President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona
2nd Vice President, National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division
Committee Chair, Arizona Association of Guide Dog Users
Affiliate Member, National Federation of the Blind Legislative Committee
Affiliate Member, National Federation of the Blind Membership Committee
Member, Slate & Style Editing Team

"You do not need to have vision to see the stars."
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