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#18 – I SPENT 2 YEARS AS ONE OF HIS STUDENTS
I have never been the same since
Dr. Paul Richardson. You gently reached inside my mind and heart and helped me understand how I would relate to people for the rest of my life. Your classes in Sociology gave me reason to ponder what I might do to help reduce tension between people with very different ideas about how they need things to be.
#17 – STILL IN COLLEGE
Learning, but having fun
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I was in college long before we had some of the technology we have today. My days were often long and filled with tasks that seem almost impossible to complete. It often took me much longer to finish what I needed to do than it took my sighted colleagues.
#16 – FAILURE WAS A REAL POSSIBILITY
There aren't any show notes for this episode. You'll be like I was, totally unprepared for what comes.
But, change can still happen, even when things are hard.
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#15 – TO JEANINE, MY MOST AMAZING, MAGICAL CHILDHOOD FRIEND
How can one small 13-year-old be full of so much wisdom, compassion, curiosity, radiance, and love?
Her name was Jeanine. Her time on this earth was so very short, but she left it, and all who knew her, in a better place because she lived among us.
#14 – "HELP" IS A TWO WAY STREET
When I was growing up, the absence of today's technology made it necessary for me to be more dependent on other people for many things. That gave me an insight into dependence that I never expected to discover. In short, many of my friends and acquaintances had similar problems, and they were not blind.
#13 – COLLEGE TWO
Mama's amazing gift
When I enrolled in college, I was studying to be a minister. This is the story of that journey and how a very special gift of love gave me the freedom to think more open-mindedly about the very narrow path I was on. That gift also allowed me to respect the varied paths taken by others that caused them, and eventually me, to understand and accept the fact
#12 – COLLEGE ONE
A professor who changed my life, and more
Here are some stories about my early college experience as the only blind student on campus. This was quite a jump from my life at the school for the blind. Given my fear of what I might find at a very good undergraduate college, was this a jump from the frying pan into the fire?
MY YEARS AT THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
Things did eventually get better
My parents knew that no school in our area could teach a child who was blind. They also knew they couldn't educate me themselves. So, they had to do the unthinkable. They had to send me away to school before I turned 5 years old.
For me, spending my first 4 years as an only child, and then suddenly being placed in a
#10 – HOW DID I DISCOVER I WAS BLIND?
It's not as easy as one might think
As a very young child, you can only know your own condition. If you can't see, you don't quickly grasp the fact that others have something you don't have. It's even harder if you have light perception, because then people tell you that you can see. But, can you? This is the complicated story about how my parents who knew nothing about blindness, and I, who
#9 – ONLY THE TREE CAN SAY
Why did grandfather go away?
In this story, my grandfather and I walk through my grandparents' apple orchard. In part, this is a sound painting of events that took place in the orchard each time I was there. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words. How many words does it take to describe a special sound, a special time, and the partly unwanted life-changing wisdom I