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What if tomorrow you went blind?
I was reading the last pages of a Hellen Keller biography book to a group of children, and I just had to pause and take a moment to talk about it in depth with them. It is something that really stops you in your tracks when you think about it. As a blind person, she had some words for all of us — words that have been a motto of mine for a long time — so I wanted to share them: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would go blind. Do the same with all your other senses. Hear the song of a bird as if tomorrow you…
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Homeless is a person in your life
I went for a walk around the block with my friend who was visiting from out of State. “Wow, I haven’t seen a single homeless person in your neighborhood,” she said. “Do you ever see homeless people?” she asked. I might’ve stuttered in my response because my definition of homeless had recently been updated. The question took me back to past years, circumstances, and people. I have known people who would probably not be considered “homeless” under US aid programs, but who have been homeless nonetheless. So, while I understood she was referring to the street-living kind of homeless, I could not say without stumbling that I barely saw homeless…
