Apparently Julie does. Well, that's what her teenage son Zac thought when Julie demonstrated her latest hobby.
“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
Bill Bernbach
I have made a 2010 New Years resolution. It was to learn how to use the Pois. Something I had learned at school, I was keen to give this kinaesthetic art form another go as a blind adult.
As usual we shared our resolutions with the family at our dinner table. “What are pois” my 16 year old teenage son Zachary enquired.
“They are a ball on the end of a piece of string which Maori people swing around in a dance like fashion.” Satisfied with my answer he asked no more.
A couple of days later I was caught making my hot pink pois. I went into the lounge where the boys were watching TV and they enquired yet again “what are you doing?”
“I’m making my pois” and in a hand swinging motion I demonstrated by doing an imaginery poi dance, only without the pois!
Zachary was not amused.
“Do you enjoy looking like a retard?” he asked.
to which I replied
“Makes a change from looking drop dead gorgeous!”
He was seriously unimpressed.
“The difference between success and failure is self consciousness”
that blind woman
Julie Woods
Professional speaker and coach
julie@thatblindwoman.co.nz
www.thatblindwoman.co.nz
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