[bookshare-discuss] Re: Inspiration
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
Wonderful mother!! smile--and nice of your employer to give you the retraining.
I'm glad you've decided to join us, George. Or was that a different George that
was complaining. I couldn't believe that it was my compadre George. smile,
teasing
G.Cindy
--- On Tue, 6/17/08, George Marshall <marshall.geoma4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: George Marshall <marshall.geoma4@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Inspiration
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 10:28 AM
> HI Cindy:
> I never thought of myself as beeing inspirational, my BA is
> in business
> management, major in accounting. When I lost my vision in
> 73 I was living in
> Canoga Park, CA and I was sent to Computer Development Corp
> in Santa Monica
> for retraining in computer programming. My mother drove me
> over each morning
> and picked me up each afternoon, now Cindy especially you
> know how much
> traffic there is on the I405 and to drive across the pass 4
> times a day is
> inspirational.
> George R. Marshall
> marshall.geoma4@xxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy"
> <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:49 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Inspiration
>
>
> > To the sighted person, it does, at least to me. Your
> blindness and how you
> > live with it makes me ashamed to complain of
> osteoarthritic pains or
> > migraines when they occur. I'm just thankful that
> I don't have rheumatoid
> > arthritis and that I'm not blind or paralyzed or
> have MS or CP or
> > anything.
> >
> > G.Cindy
> >
> >
> >> From: Elfqueen <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Inspiration
> >> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 12:25 AM
> >> *smiles* I'm never going to really get this, I
> guess.
> >> The comparison of
> >> "aches and pains," I mean. Maybe
> they're
> >> different sometimes (I.E. "The
> >> car's in the shop again! Crap!" and
> "Man, I
> >> had to sit at that bus stop in
> >> 100-degree heat for a whole hour!"), but at
> least in
> >> reference to blind and
> >> sighted people, does one carry more weight than
> the other?
> >>
> >> Now you guys see what you've done to me,
> you've
> >> gotten me into that
> >> question-all, explain-all mode! LOL!
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Grandma Cindy"
> >> <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:21 AM
> >> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Inspiration
> >>
> >>
> >> > So sorry, Shannon, but you do inspire--all of
> you
> >> do--as do paralyzed
> >> > people in wheelchairs who live normal lives,
> and
> >> people with conditions
> >> > like CP and MS--to those of us who are
> physically able
> >> and cannot imagine
> >> > what life would be like or how we would cope
> if we had
> >> any one of a number
> >> > of conditions that to us would make life
> difficult, if
> >> not unbearable,
> >> > knowing people like all of you who live
> complete, full
> >> lives, raise
> >> > families, go to college and get Ph.Ds and
> have
> >> wonderful jobs, you are
> >> > inspirations. You make us realize that our
> aches and
> >> pains are minor in
> >> > comparison and if you can life with yours we
> can live
> >> with ours, and if I
> >> > should lose my sight or have something else
> befall me
> >> instead of giving up
> >> > I will, I hope, think of all of you and think
> that if
> >> you can live a
> >> > normal life, so can.
> >> >
> >> > I'm afraid that you're just going to
> have to
> >> accept that you're an
> >> > inspiration and be happy about it. smile
> >> > Think of Joni Tada; I'm sure she wrote
> her books
> >> to inspire others. The
> >> > book validated certainly inspired me because
> of the
> >> people she wrote
> >> > about and their attitudes.
> >> >
> >> > G.Cindy
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > G.Cindy
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > - Mostly I
> >> >> get told that
> >> >> I inspire people because I... I don't
> know...
> >> don't
> >> >> wallow in how
> >> >> crappy it is to be blind? I can ignore
> that kind
> >> of thing
> >> >> from
> >> >> someone I don't interact with very
> much, but
> >> it's
> >> >> irritating coming
> >> >> from, say, the woman who gets called in
> to read my
> >> test
> >> >> answers for
> >> >> me or the man at the grocery store
> helping me
> >> shop.
> >> >> I've learned to
> >> >> smile and thank people and store up the
> smart ass
> >> comments
> >> >> for
> >> >> conversations with sympathetic friends.
> >> >>
> >> >> Shannon
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> At 12:47 AM 6/16/2008, Elfqueen wrote:
> >> >> >LOLOLOL! Did someone ask you that?
> Wow! That
> >> goes
> >> >> beyond
> >> >> >weird...that's amazingly weird! I
> >> don't like
> >> >> walking in the rain
> >> >> >either. It's distracting.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >I once had a lady come up to me out
> of the
> >> blue, and
> >> >> ask me if I
> >> >> >wrote songs? Incidentally, I do, and
> said yes.
> >> Hymns?
> >> >> Were they
> >> >> >hymns? Yes, I had written some hymns,
> but how
> >> did she
> >> >> know all this
> >> >> >about me? Well, she knew about Fanny
> Krosby,
> >> and since
> >> >> Fanny Krosby
> >> >> >was blind and wrote songs, and I was
> blind
> >> too, I must
> >> >> write songs.
> >> >> >LOL! I love it.
> >> >>
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