Good morning Blind Wisdom Seekers After my suggestion to have a smelly challenge where you list in one day 10 things you are grateful for smelling, my blindfulness babes weren’t waiting – they got stuck in. Below is their 30 entries for last Wednesday for things they...

Today I've been blind for 17 years! Thank you to you all for being there for me! This time 17 years ago I would have been sitting in the waiting room at Dunedin Public Hospital about to be declared legally blind. I couldn't possibly see the life I would one day live....

Good Wednesday morning blind wisdom seekers! Fancy a challenge? Would you like to do your own list of 10 things you smell in a day? It seems that the most elusive of the senses for everyone is smell. This comes up often in conversation and also on our daily...

Good morning Blind wisdom seekers! 1 the sound of the car speeding up and nearly hitting us on our walk yesterday morning I heard it - it was close! 2 the feel of the slippy mud pile on the footpath as I went for a slight slide on our morning walk – I sure felt that!...

On Saturday 8 March, 2014, I walked my 8th Papatowai Challenge! 15.5 km of rugged terrain along NZ’s South Otago coastline. I’ve done this walk seven times prior but it’s always a challenge as the name suggests. This year though was different and I put that down to...

Good Wednesday morning blind wisdom seekers Let’s here from one of our wisest, Helen Keller, before I do my list today. When I learned from Berkeley that your eyes receive an inverted image of things which your brain unconsciously corrects, I began to suspect that the...

Bum! After all my duty and care I forgot to send this blog entry yesterday! So I thought “what shall I do?” Can Wednesday’s blind wisdoms be relevant to Thursday? Thursday’s blind wisdoms doesn’t quite have the same ring but what the heck! Why not!!!! So here it goes!...

Good morning blind wisdom seekers Here’s the 10 things my senses are grateful for this morning! 1 the sound of my talking alarm clock go off at 5.35 am! 2 the chatter chatter of the taxi driver as he drove me down to my event at 6.50 am yesterday! 3 the feel of the...

I may not see But I can smell, And taste and touch and listen, And when I do this every day, I find my optimism!! Wow wee – and to go with this ode is a book called:The art of blindfulness – finding optimism through daily sensory gratitude, which I have written over...

Why Do We Fear the Blind? ByROSEMARY MAHONEY Published: January 4, 2014 BRISTOL, R.I. - A FEW years ago, when I mentioned to a woman I met at a party that I was teaching in a school for the blind, she seemed confused. "Can I just ask you one question?" she...