April 27, 2021 a thought for today, What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. Jewish Proverb
Well there is another eye doctors’ appointment out of the way. Sue had another follow-up in the arena district. It was an early one, those are the kind I like. We made a couple of stops on the way home, an errand for Sue and a photo hunt for me.
I was able to get the bulletin done yesterday. I also selected a bible study for them to hand out on
Saturday with the weekly message. The lady who is running it wanted to buy bible study books for all fifty people we serve. That would have been a phenomenal expense so I found a way to do it page by page weekly and free (and more work for me, oh well). Later today I got the information to finish the message for Saturday so I got that done too.
The twins were here for a visit yesterday. They haven’t been here for a couple of months so it was good to see them. They have actually grown (like they are supposed to), but I was a little shocked to see how much taller they are.
The heat of the season seems to be coming back. I hope to get my new watering system hooked up on Saturday.
The word for today is travel. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Saint Augustine. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. Francis Bacon. Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Giotto di Bondone. Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Matsuo Basho. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot. Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. Hypatia. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live, Hans Christian Andersen. Take only memories, leave only footprints, Chief Seattle. Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves, Euripides. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, Samuel Johnson. People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering, Saint Augustine.
This is an interesting article. I have dyslexia myself so reading how others especially young people deal with it is interesting and will offer some insight to all others. This particular article is about a young person who has had reading problems in her life and is now publishing books of her own through a group called “Mindful Literacy Columbus”. To start with, one young lady got a new tutor and needed the first month of the three times a week sessions with the special education teacher to develop trust. The problem of her dyslexia needed to be addressed after the trust issue was met. When she was six, it became apparent that she needed teaching methods that were more explicit than other kids her age, meaning a lot more effort. Her tutor knew that “locked within ... (her) mind were fantastic stories waiting to be told.” Once the tutor found the “key”, the student went from “reluctant learner” to a writer in three months. Her book is called “The Sneakers”. Dyslexia affects one in five people worldwide. It affects the neurological learning difference and causes letters to appear backward or in reverse, it also affects speech and language processing. One description the article pointed out is it is like “being forced to read a foreign language”. It is possible that it can impact life in every aspect. Another student with dyslexia wrote a book called “A Fairy’s Tale”. She was diagnosed at eight years old when her teacher saw problems with test scores and other classroom activity. She loved school but there were things that weren’t matching up with that emotion. The book that she was finally able to publish combines fiction, history and current events. The “Mindful Literacy Columbus started a scholarship program to pay for children in Central Ohio to receive tutoring, which can cost up to $1,500 a month.” The tutor, who started a program called Bhive Press, hopes to partly fund the program with sales of the young people’s books. Further hopes are to establish a center where adults can be taught to work with children with learning differences. These efforts will hopefully, for the students, lead not only to mastering their disability but will help build confidence and shift how they see themselves.
We are having chicken fries and French fires for dinner tonight.
Joy
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