By Robin L. Ennis, MSW, LSW Be careful of what you say; be careful of what you do… For every word spoken and action taken, has the potential to shape my day. I recently read an article that peaked my interest and caused me to think more about how one kind gesture from someone can mean the world to another. How many times have you been told to believe in yourself and/or others? To some, they may have never been told or taught to believe in...
Scientist are finding ways to bypass portions of a defective eye component and sight is being created where no sight was before. Is this coming down the pipeline for me and you? Is this a barbaric form of stimulation of contrasting figments that are decipherable to the person or is this the grand jewel of technology to the blind? I am not sure. I have no clue. But hey, go for it. Make them eyes in the shop and send them my way. Will this change...
A blog post created for BeautifullyBlind.com Accepting My Blindness As I pass through so many worlds, so many lives each day, I wish my Scarlet Letter was not my defining impression. My blindness does not define me. And to those who don’t understand I begin to write… If I never accepted my blindness I would join you in a notion of pity and share a tear of sadness with you. And, yet, there would come a day when we would cry no more, no more...
Shoes I will never know what it is like to wear the shoes of a black man in a small white town. To wear the shoes of a Japanese in California in 1941, that too, I’ll never know. I’ll never really know what different shoes would bring me nor different times would show me but I do know my own shoes I fill and I fill them well. Being blind or Visually Impaired comes with it something I never ever knew and I could never ever compare it to some...
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.
One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education.
He argued, 'What's a kid going to learn from
someone who decided his best option in life was to become
a teacher?'
He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers:
'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.'
To emphasize his point he said to another guest;
'You're a teacher, Bonnie.
Be honest.. What do...