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...
by julie | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I went blind I may have lost my sight but I got my vision back. To start with all these people were telling me what I couldn’t do now that I couldn’t see. But how did they know? I began to realise they were limiting me by their own lack of imagination and I could...
by julie | May 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
At a local Dunedin Coaches Network meeting one Thursday night I was having a conversation about my upcoming trip to visit our 4th wonder of the world in India when the topic of diaries came up. “I always keep a sensory diary” I explained to the group, “one thing that...
by julie | May 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
You’ve heard of mindfulness, well now the Blind Wisdom blog brings you blindfulness! What is it? Blindfulness is moment to moment awareness of the four non visual senses; smell, hear, taste and touch! So many of us llive our lives thinking of all the things that might...
by julie | Apr 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
I don’t mean to show you sighted people up, but………. These hot cross buns were so easy I made them with my eyes shut! All you need is a breadmaker, an oven and the right Easter attitude! Since I went blind I’ve always tried to focus on what I could do and not what I...
by julie | Mar 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today I’ve been blind for 20 years! Who would have thought? When I spoke at Oamaru Intermediate a few years ago, one of the female students wrote to me afterwards and said “when I grow up I hope to be as lucky as you!” And boy have I been lucky. Or has it been luck?...
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