My mornings are usually hectic just as yours must be. Coffee? Stain on your shirt? Hurry. Oh hurry please.
Not too long ago I had the good fortune to talk with "Insight Radio" in Scotland. This is a radio channel that offers programming about blindness and low vision to listeners in the UK.
I found myself sipping coffee in the early Iowa dawn and talking about denial. Lots of people who have disabilities struggle to admit their physical differences and that’s an old story.
I said that the way to beat denial is to admit that you desire a larger life.
I learned to be a cane traveler and a guide dog traveler precisely because I wanted to see what might lie beyond the next hill.
Lots of blind folks will tell you the same story.
It was a good interview.
Lo! And then I opened my e-mail and discovered this story about "Project 3000"–a research initiative that’s underway here at the University of Iowa under the direction of my friend and colleague, Dr. Edwin Stone.
You can visit the story in this issue of USA TODAY, and as a supporter of Project 3000, I wish you
would.*
There are a thousand ironies concerning disability. For instance: one may well decide to live without thinking about being "cured". This is an important position because one can get stuck on a medical model merry-go-round of doctor visits and depressive subjectivity.
Planet of the Blind 