[nfbmi-talk] We are having a board meeting tomorrow at 8:30 P.M.

Thu Apr 12 21:37:59 UTC 2012

Are we charity or are we advocacy?

Oh my let us not advocate and let us not be the masters of our fate.

Let us, rather hold out our plate
begging at the banquet of life
we wouldn't wish
to mix it up and mingle
and be accused of strife,
would we?

.

Let us hold clam bakes, and sell baked goods
and let us sell our souls
right there in the woods.

Just so long
as we can
sing our song
and wonder about the neighborhoods
pastured by other lambs
sheep to slaughter everyone.
.

Let us hold walkathons
so others can talk on and on
doing nothing for the common good
or the brotherhood.

Let us not think
about being free,
or all we want, or can be.

We can't be   with advocacy,
all on account of reading sad poetry,
just to raise some bread
and to finger a dime,
all to have a good time,
for once a year while others smear
in the interim at our blinded fait.

Say brother, you gotta dime?
Say, sister you got some time?

I'm only a blind wanna be
who always talked bravely
about independence and all that phony stuff.
Advocates, well we've had enough!

Map my course with sophistication
and with sublime geo-imagery.

Not bad after all,
good actually,
but it's sophistication
isn't afforded by this entire nation
of the blind asking of the blind
to climb
upon shoulders
while throwing
out boulders
at others who are blind too.

.

I don't care all that much
so long as you don't bother me
with all that reality,
especially the political reality that effect both you and me.

I'm not here to buck convention
or the rest of the year in-between,

because I'm off to that convention,

and the land of wanna bee.

I got my job.
I got my dime.
I, I, I , I yay a ya.

I am mine and it
is all about me.
I'm just a blind
narcissi wanna be.
I look in to the lake
and see everything fake
but my reflection
dazzles me and this is me,
and all I want to be
for it is all about me after all right?

I once stood on shoulders of giants.
Society called them malcontents.

They were Tenbrook and Braille,
and, yes Keller and others frail
by society's notions,
and so long as commotions
didn't rock the boat
they thought us cute.

But we were meaningless
and charitable contrivances,
oh so enviable be those
potable souls eh?

Bake sales?
Expositions?
Yard sales?
Impositions?

The time for civil rights has not ended,
and in case apple carts,
get upended,
we'll all be left
empty handed.

All of us!

Just beggars at the feast,
feeding vanities
and the beast
of a world blinded
through its own ignorance
to possibilities.

Some call me rough,
others call me tough.

I'm a pussycat really,
just because again I want
us to be all we can be.

Our founders held flags
that said, "Don't tread on me."

Yet, we shiver with timidity.

Once we were the tempest.
Now, we seem like milktoast.

Where are the champions inside of each of us?

It is time to rally,
and time to defy,
all the real negativity
bborn of the insanity,
that thinks we are
less than the. multitude,
and forgive me sister
if I don't echo gratitude
or don't echo Oliver
asking for just a little more
porridge
while the rest of us suffer,
and while the mmultitudes
struggle in suffrage
to great for a body to bare
without at very least
a whimper and a moan.

More Porridge please mister?

Give this generation
fishing lessons God!

they've forgotten how to fish.

This is my prayer.

This is my wish.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth" <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>
To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] We are having a board meeting tomorrow at 8:30 
P.M.

> Hello Christine,
>
> Thank you for your kind words. I did not mean to suggest that issues 
> surrounding the Michigan Commission for the Blind are not important. I am 
> just not sure if it should be the sole reason for our conference calls or 
> our organization as a whole.
>
> I really like your idea of holding some sort of fundraiser to help people 
> attend national convention. I think it would be a great way to inject some 
> positive energy into our organization.
>
> Take care,
> Elizabeth
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Christine _boone" <christine_boone at comcast.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:28 PM
> To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] We are having a board meeting tomorrow at 8:30 
> P.M.
>
>> You know, I think Elizabeth raises a valid point.  It's time for 
>> something new!  Sadly I do not think we can forget about the MCB because 
>> it is so important to the futures of so many blind people.  That being 
>> said however, it is time for some real positive energy!  It would be 
>> pretty cool to have a walk-a-thon, bake sale, dramatic reading or other 
>> kind of fund raiser.  The proceeds, or a portion of them, could support 
>> many of our members in going to National Convention.
>>
>> I cannot be on tomorrow as I am taking a class on Thursday nights, but I 
>> wanted to share my thoughts at least.
>>
>> Good luck to all!
>> Warmly,
>> Christine
>>
>>
>> Boone Christine Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 11, 2012, at 8:16 PM, "Elizabeth" <lizmohnke at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please forgive me, but what exactly is the purpose of this meeting? Is 
>>> this meeting simply for informational purposes only, and if so, does 
>>> there really need to be a quorum of board members for such a meeting to 
>>> take place? If there is only discussion and no business taking place 
>>> during these meetings, do they really need to continue on such a routine 
>>> basis? It seems to me like a lot of these conference calls only end up 
>>> in a long rambling rant about the Michigan Commission for the Blind. Is 
>>> that really what our organization is all about anymore?
>>>
>>> Elizabeth
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "trising" <trising at sbcglobal.net>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:56 PM
>>> To: "NFBofMichigan List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] We are having a board meeting tomorrow at 8:30 P. 
>>> M.
>>>
>>>> We are having a board meeting tomorrow at 8:30.The agenda will be 
>>>> determined at the meeting    Call 605-475-4333 902855 pound . Terri 
>>>> WilcoxSecretary National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
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