From: Pete Donahue 
Subject: Re: jobs and decorations (fwd)
Fellow Federationists and Friends,
I thought you might enjoy some more holliday cheer; especially when it
makes a statement about the absolute normality of blind persons.  Our
interests span the spectrum from playing musical instruments to decorating
with lights for the Christmas season.  Enjoy this holliday magic from Olga
Espinola.
Happy Hollidays,
Peter Donahue
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:16:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Olga Espinola 
Reply-To: access-l@io.org
To: access-l@io.org
Subject: Re: jobs and decorations
Don and I, mostly he did the work, put up lights all across the front of 
the porch and up the sides of the posts on the porch, up over the porch 
swing and over the door.  Our door has a wreath on it too.  And we have a 
live xmas tree (a Norwegian spruce) which we will plant in the ground 
after xmas, sitting also on the porch.  It's all lit up and decorated 
with a lighted star at the top and lots of tinsel.  Even my flower bed in 
front of the porch on the lawn has lights around its border, and we put 
up a star in one of the side windows since our house is on a corner, and 
some other lights in the back yard strung all over the trees there too.  
What's more interesting than anything else about all this is that we are 
among the very few in the neighborhood who have already put up their 
decoarations.  And this whole neighborhood knows we're blind.  So I guess 
by doing it all ourselves we made a statement, huh?
One neighbor  said to a friend of mine recently, "Oh, yes, I have seen 
that woman but I didn't think she was blind because when I saw her she 
was working in her garden.  Guess a blind person isn't supposed to be 
able to do that or something.   
Live long and prosper.
Olga

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