Hello friends!
If you are subscribed to my podcasts, you will know that I have just put up my interview with Ronnie Milsap done on ACB Radio on Easter Sunday.
Because this is my blog (smile), I wanted to take just a second to share how important this interview was for me, and what a personal joy it was for me to finally achieve one of the milestones of my amateur broadcast work.
Some of you may know that in addition to serving people with partial sight and blindness needs in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a vendor of adaptive technology, I also teach classes to service providers in universal design--design we all can use. In that capacity, I frequently share that my blindness is a very positive thing in my life and that because of my blindness, I have had many fabulous experiences I'd never have had if sight had been a part of my life's experience. For example, how many sighted folk can say they've been in the pen with the MGM lion, ridden astride an elephant's broad back, or visited the technologically advanced bridge of a large cruise ship with the captain allowing them to hold the ship's wheel in-hand. I do believe that blindness is not the end of life, and I seek to surround myself by friends whose attitudes about blindness, be it their's or somebody else's, is similar.
I have for years been impressed with the natural spirit and agility Ronnie Milsap shows during his concerts and interviews. His love of Braille and understanding that blind kids are the future and need to be taught strong Braille skills and blindness coping skills have long made him a person near and dear to my heart. So, to have the chance to interview him in my own way, not professionally done but done from my heart and with my whole spirit, was a thing I shall long remember.
So if you haven't listened yet and if you have a few minutes, plese do let me share this gift of mine with you. I listen to it even these number of weeks later and still feel amazed that I could have been permitted to do such a thing!
I hope you enjoy this and my other podcasts. My hope is that I'll share some cool stuff with my friends who are blind, and that I'll bring more friends to the table through this medium who'll see that blindness is really not the end of the world, it's a way of living life.
Time for me to hit the rack. My ACB Radio show is on tonight (Sunday) at 9 PM Pacific and 6 Central, so I need to be fresh for it! Maybe you'll join me there as well!
Deepest Peace to you all, and thank you for allowing me to visit with you!
Marlaina and Little Guide Dog, Madeline
AKA M&M
