[bookshare-discuss] Re: children's books and OT:cloudy with a chance of M...
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:50:05 -0400
Smile, but artist interpretations are sometimes what we have to go on, smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
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Well, if you were told that stars are five pointed things I would say that
you were at least misled. That is only an artistic representation of stars.
Actually they look more like just small dots of light with no shape or
dimensions. They are too far away to show any structural detail.
"Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various
ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx
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My sister described to me the sky. She said it was like a bowl overhead that
went with you wherever you were. I learned that stars were five-pointed
silvery things like those stars on Christmas trees.
Now color? I have no idea what it is, nor do I really care. I just take it
for granted that you sighted folks aren't lying to me. Are you?
Bob
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>
> Ann, your parents were/are? wonderful. As one who has struggled with
> describing illustrations, I'd appreciate knowing what words your parents
> used to describe the sky and stars. I've simply said "a dark sky" or a
> starry sky or a bright blue sky; but if I ever have to do children's books
> again I could use your parents' descriptions (hopefully the wonderful
> sighted volunteers we have who are willing to do them will stick around.
> smile. Cindy
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> --- On Sat, 4/18/09, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: children's books and OT:cloudy with a
>> chance of Meatb...
>> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 1:57 PM
>> Hi all,
>>
>> <smiling> Wow, Roger, you have the use of
>> hyperbole down to a science. 'nough said.
>>
>> RE the misconceptions people who are blind have of the
>> world, this is directly due to parents and to
>> teachers. My parents, two of the best folks on the
>> planet, described everything to me. They described
>> even the things I couldn't touch like the sky and the stars
>> and all. As for not knowing that birds are bi-pedal,
>> that is because nobody had taken the time or the interest to
>> show this gal a sculpture of a bird or take her to a farm to
>> pet chickens or introduce her to a live paroket so that she
>> could feel it. I got one of the biggest thrills of my
>> life walking the Bird Song Trail in Mendon Ponds Park and
>> held out sunflower seeds on my hand and had a chickadee land
>> on my hand and eat the seeds. I wish that parents
>> could do this for their kids. I wish VI teachers could
>> do this with their kids.
>>
>> Shoot, I remember my father lifting me up so I could feel
>> the tops of columns on buildings so I would know what they
>> were. No, this kind of mentoring is irreplaceable.
>>
>> Ann P.
>>
>> --
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>>
>> "All that is gold does not glitter,
>> Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
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