Hey, Mary Ellen! I'm only 46, and definitely not a goat! I'm more like a large cat with a guide dog! I'm curious about everything, and love being that way. <big grin> You know, I had my first Perkins brailler in 1969, and I still have one.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:41:40 -0800 >Subject: [Braillenote] The article: >You know, I don't know what to make of this article. >Yes the reporter was an idiot there is no doubt about it and the article was >as badly written as any nineteenth century novel about the blind I have ever >seen but think about this. Not a single one of us on this list would have >ever heard of oneanother unless we belonged to ACB or NFB or went to school >or a guide dog center or a rehab center were it not for this truly marvelous >equipment. >You young people have no clue about what how us old goats got our education >and what we did not have. >I wake up every morning and thank my Heavenly Father that I can now download >a book into the Braille Note. >I can remember when the only thing we had to use as first graderswere Haul >Braillers and then one day Mr. Eugeen Stephens head of special Education for >our schools came in and presented Miss Mergentheimer with one Brand New >Perkins Brailler. Miss Mergentheimer treated that machine like gold. There >was a part of the classroom where we were not allowed to go as she said this >was the shelf for her "pretties." On that shelf was a spice wrack with >spices to develop sense of smell and various objects for conceptualization >and on the very end sat that perkins Braille Writer and if we got an A. on >that spelling test we got to do our next lesson on the Perkins. >My point is, yes 99% of the sighted world are idiots and have this archaic >idea that if they lost their sight they wouldn't be able to cope and some >wouldn't. So yes indeed these machines are most definitely miracles and the >more sophistocated they become the more miraculous they will continue to be. >Mary Ellen Earls >Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday. >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >From there, I went to a Braille n Speak, to a Type n Speak, to a Type Lite, >and now to a BrailleNote. Each piece of equipment was more fabulous and >wonderful than the last. So what's next in the industry? I'm ready, are you? I hope I never lose my appreciation for the different pieces of equipment as they come along for they are what makes this world a little more easy to get along in and work in. The younger generation cannot fully understand where we are coming from being as they have had these things from early childhood, unlike us. Though, in the future, they will be able to say the same thing to the kids of the future. Diane Garrett/Leader Daisy Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (918) 664-5731
