by julie | Aug 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Look at this! Rons daughter Monique has helped me add to my 1 million names in braille by asking me to write the names of her colleagues at Manat Taonga – Ministry for Culture and Heritage in braille! All 30 of them! She even got a photo! Your braille cards were...
by julie | Aug 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Meet Brent Harpur, a man who did some cane spotting at a workshop in Dunedin recently and as a result came up to say hello to this blind woman. Brent is legally blind and uses the 20% of vision he has in one eye along with his immense drawing skills to create images...
by julie | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Well I guess when I started writing my 1 million names in braille Pippity Pop was the name of the oldest person I had written in braille, because, she was the first! But, since then, the age has crept up and yesterday it hit 99! Yes, I visited the wonderful rest home...
by julie | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
I awoke to the sound of silence! What a magnificent sound that is. “I’m going to open the window” I told Ron. As I did, I could hear the wind swirling gently, and then the sound of no cars. I don’t even know what time in the middle of the night that was. I do know,...
by julie | Jun 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Seeing in The New York Times a photograph of Helen Keller in the Observation Tower of the Empire State Building, Dr John Finlay wrote to her asking what she really "saw" from that height? This remarkable (and abridged) letter written by Helen came back and...
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