What an interesting idea. Leg has created a set of their bricks with Braille dots on them for visually impaired and blind children. The kids use them to learn and play. Check out this video —
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What a Dog-Gone Day Today Is!
Today, and every Aug. 26 since 2004, is National Dog Day. It’s a day for all of our dogs, pure-bred or so mixed they have to be referred to as “American.” The day was established to remind us of the multitude of dogs that need to be rescued or re-homed, and the many way dogs serve us–protecting us, searching out bombs, drugs, and humans lost in earthquake rubble, helping the blind and disabled, and, in recent years, detecting seizures and cancer in people. Read about this day and its significance at About National Dog Day.
Meanwhile, I’m remembering all my past faithful furry friends and celebrating Rosie, my re-homed companion/helper, shown here when she couldn’t decide on whether to continue her nap or play.
To Be InSIGHTful
I ask you to read this story in two ways–literal and symbolic. I think it speaks to the fact we miss a lot by spend so much of our time with closed eyes, figuratively. I believe in eyes wide open, to take in the beauty of our surroundings and the people in it. (Story is from https://www.livin3.com/5-motivational-and-inspiring-short-stories.)
A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…
“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”
Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…
Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”
The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…
“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?” The old man smiled and said…“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.”
Have a beautiful, inSIGHTful day!
You Can’t “Turn a Blind Eye” to This
A bit of language trivia for you today: the origin of the phrase to “Turn a blind eye.” It means, of course, to ignore something, to refuse to acknowledge that something exists or is happening.
This goes back to the early 1800s, to Horatio Nelson, a British naval hero, as he fought the Battle of Copenhagen. His ships, facing a much larger Danish/Norwegian fleet, had little hope of victory. His superior officer sent a signal for him to retreat, but Nelson didn’t want to. He put his telescope up to his blind eye, stated that he didn’t see the signal, carried on the battle—and won! Okay. Some historians say this is just a myth; yet “turn a blind eye” is still with us today.
Thursday Thought: The Power of Words/Seeing through Blind Eyes
This very short Youtube video struck me on so many levels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?