[nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award

[Alco Canfield]

Hard to know now, Carl, but would you have done so if you could have
afforded to?  You are so "fiscally responsible" i.e. "cheap", I rather doubt
it.  (grin)

Alco

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From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:46 PM
To: amcanfield at comcast.net; NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award

True Alco, but also, I couldn't afford to hire people to walk everywhere 
with me.

Carl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alco Canfield" <amcanfield at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List'" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award


> Yes, Carl, but you had the sense and intelligence to realize that you 
> needed
> to use a cane.
>
> Alco
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:44 PM
> To: amcanfield at comcast.net; NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award
>
> When I was 17, and recovering from detached retina surgery, a blind man,
> George Bailey came to my door and offered to teach me typing.
> It turned out that George had been given my name by the old Washington 
> State
>
> Association of the Blind.
> Totally blind, George traveled without the benefit of a cane of any type.
> His only travel tool was his whistle.  He told me he could listen to the
> echo and tell what was around him.
> George was an employee of the Seattle Lighthouse.  He sold brooms door to
> door, taught newly blinded folks, and played the University of Washington
> chimes, daily.
> George said that when he was a young man, they had not yet developed the
> long white travel cane.  If he were going to get out and about, he had to 
> do
>
> it without such tools.
>
> Although I had the greatest of respect for George, I never felt that 
> because
>
> he did not use a cane, that I didn't need one, either.
> Even though I really struggled over using a travel cane, I knew that I 
> would
>
> have to become proficient with it if I was going to take on the world.
> Carl Jarvis
>
>
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