[stylist] The Erasure

[EvaMarie Sanchez]

Well, I will just again say thank you to you. You are always posting
thought provokers.
I do have a question for you particularlly. I may have asked this before.
If so, sorry.
You live in Phoenix right? Are you involved in NFBAz? I cannot think of a
time where I have run into you, so if you are, what chapter are you in? Do
you go to convention or anything?
Just trying to figure out why we do not have more contact. I have had times
that Allison and I have worked together and the state is not that big.
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."

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Jackie Williams via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sanchez via stylist
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> Subject: [stylist] The Erasure
>
> 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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