Hi Carla! What a sweet story. I'm glad you were able to read your mom's handwriting. Debby At 02:19 AM 7/17/2012, Carla savage wrote >Hi list, >for me, the best images i have read with the Optacon was my Mother's >handwriting. She gave me a book for Christmas and it is a book from >mothers to daughters about how mums feel about them and their emotions. My >Mum wrote me a little message inside. >That for me to be able to read and appreciate the message is priceless! >Take care, >cokes. >Sent from my N86 smart phone > >-original message- >Subject: [optacon-l] Memory triggered by Catherine's email >From: Kathryn AfarianAfarian <kathrynafarian@xxxxxxxxx> >Date: 17/07/2012 3:55 am > >I have debated whether to write this, since it may reveal too much about >me, but I think this group will understand. Years ago I worked as a >supervisor of teachers and missionaries at my church's missionary training >center in Provo, Utah. Every week I received a print-out about incoming >missionaries. It had, as I remember, seven columns with information about >the new arrivals. A number of times sighted people came to me saying >something like, "I just can't understand how to read these charts." It >was always secretly satisfying, in perhaps a somewhat nasty way, to sit >and explain a chart that I had figured out one letter at a time to someone >who had the whole thing spread open before their eyes. The optacon has >made great things possible for all of us. >Kathryn > >Sent from my iPadto view the list archives, go to: > >www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l > >To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: > >optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the >quotes) in the message subject. > >Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: > >optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the >quotes) in the message subject. > > >to view the list archives, go to: > >www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l > >To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: > >optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the >quotes) in the message subject. > >Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: > >optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the >quotes) in the message subject. -- mailto:<the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, But the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness. Proverbs 15:2 NKJV "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue ; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Job 6:24 NKJV to view the list archives, go to: www.freelists.org/archives/optacon-l To unsubscribe at any time, just send a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject. Tell your friends about the list. They can subscribe by sending a message to: optacon-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the message subject.