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 of Holmdene, in Balclutha where I spoke to the residents about my why not attitude and in the audience was 99 year old Gladys!
As you can imagine some of the residents live with vision loss and it was wonderful to connect with them.
I wrote 91 of their names in braille, including the staff, but before I went there I visited the Clutha Council where I wrote the name of the mayor Bryan Cadogan, Jean, Barry, Ruth and Richard, (Jean’s cat), along with the Clutha Leader reporter Mary Jo and the ODT reporter Sam! Attached is the article which appeared in the Otago Daily Times on page 10 today!
So, yesterday my total names in braille climbed from 443 to 541!
That’s 541 stars!
“Shoot for the moon,
Even if you miss it,
You’ll land among the stars!”
Les Brown
Magic Julie, it was so good to spend some ti e with you yesterday, I know it went super well it at Holmdene, I have already had some great feed back !
It was nuts Jean! I loved it! I want to move into Holmdene! I love Balclutha!
Have you counted me Ju? And Briallen and Tom and Frisky? Sorry I didn’t have any more babies! And how about Jenny? I’ll let her know if you add her. Oh and I I love the shooting for the moon and landing in stars!
No I haven’t added you in yet. I have to braille your names though and send them to you. When are you back? Email me Jenny’s new address and I can post one to her! Jx
You did mine for Christmas a while back so you have a free pass! Jen will get hers from her current address ok. She was delighted when I told her.