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WELCOME TO CONNECTIONS FOR EVERYTHINGBLIND
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VOL. 1
ISSUE 6
September, 2008
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Here with Connections, we would like to give something to everyone. We want it to be a work of the readers, so remember to keep an open mind and jump in with your own submissions to Connections.
Everyone must find their own path and way and make their own decisions in what to believe and it is very important that a variety of views are considered in this world.
If everyone could all wish to help those less fortunate or wise in life, and To help mentor and support someone that needs what they have, well, then, it would be a pretty nice world, wouldn’t it.
This is especially true in the world of blind and visually impaired individuals.
I, myself had a very difficult time in finding understanding and inspiring individuals to whom I could look for support in the gradual occurrence of my blindness.
Even worse, I have met individuals that lose their sight instantaneously in their life and they find themselves lost in the system.
What You Can Expect
Each month we will share with you stories, poems, and essays on principles which keep us going and growing as both blind and visually impaired individuals, but also as able and active individuals.
Send your stories, poems, essays, and lessons about vital principles which you have found to be helpful in your success or failure in life.
This month’s principle is integrity and
William Fisher
Has this to say about that in The American Reporter Vol. 14, No. 3,481W - August 3, 2008
He is speaking of the most looked up words on the internet …
“…I'm surprised the most looked up word in 2005 is "integrity." Only one definition was offered: firm adherence to a code of
especially moral or artistic values. A synonym in bold print added Incorruptibility." And a trip to Webster's to define that reveals it to be: blamelessness.
You don't need a lot of words to define integrity. It's like charm; you either have it or you don't, and you know it when you see it. It's a good sign that
people are looking up that word. This year integrity was spoken of often when looking for Supreme Court Justices. He or she was a person of integrity.
Or someone might not have the integrity to sit on the high court.
In its simplest terms, integrity is doing the right thing. And, if we do the right thing then we're made of the right stuff. We would have character.
I don't believe there ever comes a time when we don't know the right thing versus the wrong thing in any given situation. If we do the right thing we're
persons of integrity; if we do the wrong thing, it suggests corruptibility. Everyone looking up that definition was someone wanting to know what it takes
- and that's a good sign.
Growing up, my mother never gave me grammar lessons or vocabulary quizzes but she would use words occasionally - in the correct way - and I either understood
them, or I didn't. If I told her I didn't know what she was talking about she would simply shrug. I knew immediately I'd better look it up or I'd never
be able to communicate with, say, William F Buckley, Jr.
The word my mother spoke was "indefatigable." When I found it simply meant untiring, I asked "Why didn't you say so?" Again she shrugged, smiling this time….”
Correspondent William Fisher's "American Opinion" appears Wednesdays in The American Reporter. He is a former U.S. diplomat who blogs at "The World According
to Bill Fisher."
Do You Have the Integrity?
Do you have the integrity to look at what you believe and really, honestly, know it is the right thing?
None of us can be perfect but, if we honestly look at any choice we have to make, we can easily see whether our choice truly is the right one and possibly change a wrong choice before we must pay consequences later for our shortcomings.
considering Others Views
It is always wise to consider others views and beliefs and be willing to maybe change some of our own views, if we find others’ views, at least, possible?
Trusting Yourself
The one thing I know about my source is that I can not possibly really understand it. I simply have to trust in what I have experienced and in the results it has given me.
For me to honestly know integrity, was to learn from a mentor that good was not something you did, it was instead the absence of bad.
In other words, the things I had been doing in my life, were bad things … terrible, in fact, so I could not just suddenly be a good person.
I had to slowly strip away the bad things that I did not like about myself.
It turned out to be Quite simple, when practiced, diligently and with sincere effort.
This is not the only way to practice integrity.
More likely, you may be a basically good person, with a few little cracks and flaws in the structure of your life.
This is very normal, and here those cracks must be looked at as the same as a small fissure in a bridge, that in time, over use, and without fail, will collapse because of failure to repair the original fissures.
We all may spend our whole life repairing and then finding new cracks in our character and this is perfect.
This is maintaining a basic integrity in our self.
No one, no matter who they tell you they are, is perfect.
True integrity to face one’s shortcomings requires us to be honest and admit that our ego still can show its ugly head in almost every part of our life.
If we find integrity to trust the good about ourselves, we can continue to release this ego and not rely on it to make us feel better about ourselves.
Read on in this month’s issue to find out how we can recondition our conditioning and use integrity to condition our true selves.
Ten Principles
There are 10 common and basic principles which can be studied one by one and our understanding of them will change as we progress toward an awakening in our spirit. This most often happens automatically once the principles are rightly understood for what they are.
The 10 principles which I have learned about and still learn about every day, are as follows:
1 honesty
2 hope
3 faith
4 courage
5 integrity
6 willingness
7 humility
8 brotherly love
9 self discipline
10 perseverance.
These principles may differ slightly from program to program throughout the world, be it a Native American 12-step program, Christian, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters anonymous, Sex addicts Anonymous, and etc. but basically, if you can find 10 principles that fit what you need, you will inevitably progress to a higher understanding about your life and find why you might be missing out on the joy and wonder of the world, blind or sighted.
Please contribute
Please contribute what you can in teaching and helping others with your example.
Instructions are found below to submit your stories about some of these principles in life.
The Rewards
Once these principles are learned and begun to be practiced, daily, the 11th and 12th, those being conscious contact with a higher power and then love and service, just magically appear. The simple acts of kindness spontaneously start to happen, on both sides of the card. Suddenly, people reach out with love and acceptance and even if they occasionally, don't, we still find love for those souls who have not yet begun to find it. Our understanding of others grows and our feelings of continuous hope and love shine forth from our hearts. Before we know it, we are people whom even ourselves love, unconditionally.
The Fifth Principle
This month I am sharing some of my own insight about the fifth principle of integrity with which we can learn a new way to think about who we are and how to forgive ourselves.
If we understand the principle of honesty and that being 100% honest *all* of the time is essential to our best interest, well, we must admit that building integrity is easy.
Just like courage was, to have integrity is a choice to make.
It's a simple choice you get to make to let those fissures in your character stay there, and possibly never get worse, or possibly get bigger and your whole life finally tumbles, or to fix them as they appear and keep a strong structural integrity.
Sounds like rolling the dice, to me.
Everyone has there own path, remember…
If we become inspired by a higher purpose, it becomes so much easier.
A simple choice.
Surrender and give it a try.
Surrendering takes willingness.
Tune in next month for some insightful ways to view what willingness really could be.
Insight On Perception
If we went by what our eyes could see Well, often the truth would be eluding us.
For those without eyes, it's how you perceive things ...
“. We can learn how we are blinded by deceptions of our mind.
The following was written by Bill Urell.
"The principles of the
12 steps
can be very difficult or very simple to understand. This is an effort to simplify the meaning of the principles of the 12 steps for those who may be having
difficulty. These are the principles that are incorporated into our daily lives as 'we walk the walk'. Employing each of these behaviors will help to rebuild
a life of increased self esteem and self confidence. So, in my never ending quest to keep it simple, here are the action principles behind steps toward {spiritual awakening}...
5. Integrity - If we have truly done a thorough job of introspection and evaluation of our assets and shortcomings do we have the integrity to own up to
it? It can be very difficult to be open and honest about our past behaviors. We accept the need for a dose of humility.
More about the rest of the principles can be found at The Principles Behind The 12 Steps Of Addiction Recovery
Structure
Integrity is most often related to structure.
The misconception about this is that because you have good structure in your life, does not always mean that you have integrity in your behavior.
Little quirks and faults of our own often affect others more than we can know.
Integrity is simply a catalyst through which your action will make things happen.
It will allow you to face underlying fears which keep you from taking action.
Anything you get, takes work and sometimes hard work.
To expect something for nothing is simply not realistic.
I mean that we must each and every one of us do our best each and every day and keep on doing it on each new day that arrives.
This is not ever as hard as it seems.
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Integrity Quotes
Please visit the Quote Garden site, Where we found these integrity quotes:
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Johnson
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
~J.C. Watts
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~Alan Simpson
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
~Thomas Paine
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
~Buddha
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
~Arthur Freed
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
~William Lloyd Garrison
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
~William Safire
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
~Henry Ford
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~Mark Twain, "What Is Man?", 1906
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
~John Lubbock
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
~James D. Miles
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
~Charles Evans Hughes
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
~George Bernard Shaw
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
~Author Unknown
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
~Henry David Thoreau
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
~Chester W. Nimitz
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~Norman Vincent Peale
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
~Arnold H. Glasow
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
~Victor Hugo
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
~Author Unknown
Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
~B.C. Forbes
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.
~Nordstrom's Employee Handbook
Editor's Update
Dear Readers,
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Please forward this to all of your friends and colleagues.
Thanks to you, the advertisers and readers, Connections is expecting a full recovery of names and many more. We are bringing the blind community closer together.
Sincerely,
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One of our goals is to take each of you who are willing and ready to grab a hold of a dream and help you to run with it.
OK, so you may be blind, but who cares. Find what it is that makes you passionate and live it.
Please, visit my personal growth page to find some ways to help you do this
Enter Our Contest
Each month, here at Connections, we will be holding a contest where you can submit a story relating to that month's topic.
The winner will receive a gift such as gift certificates to your favorite online stores or your favorite restaurants.
This month has no winner, as there were no submissions.
Integrity is a tough one, but remember, you could be the only submission and how easy it would be to win the next one! *smile*
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It’s a place where every purchase benefits a scholarship fund to assist visually impaired students earn a college degree.
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October's Topic: Principle of Willingness
Next month’s issue will deal with the principle of willingness.
Submit your best ideas in a story or poem about how willingness helped you past something in your life. Send in anything you have learned in the process of learning to be willing.
Just tell us what willingness means to you.
We will choose the best submission and the winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the on line shop of their choice.
Please send your submissions to submissions@everythingblind.com
Type October submission in the subject line.
Meeting Goals
Most days I wake up feeling graciously bountiful and then I keep picturing where I'm to be in the whole vision of my life, and the next
thing falls into place. Right in my lap.
When I lose sight of what I must do to keep those things, they begin to slip away.
It has been a very powerful and extremely wonderful experience, thus far.
Make up your mind how much of your sorrow and worry and bad luck is of your own choice.
How willing are you to do anything it takes to achieve your goals and dreams? Then decide what you can do to make it happen by changing what you have been doing that doesn't work.
If you need help, find it. It's all around. just look at the truth.
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Books
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Behind Our Eyes
27 courageous authors are featured in this Anthology written by disabled writers from all around the nation, also Germany and Australia.
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This book is a must read for professionals as well as the general reading public.
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Broken Eyes Now On Audio Tape!
The book 'Broken Eyes' by Mack W. Riley' is now available on tape and CD!
at the Braille Institute " # CBB 2492 " Tel. 1-800- 808-2555 for southern California residents.
For CD Visit
Recently, I published a book in memory of Mack Willard Riley a Collection of Short Stories, named "BROKEN EYES", because the last 20 years of his life he was totally blind. Yet, it never stopped him from continuing to try to reach his goals, no matter what stood in his way. He helped more people in need than anyone I know, especially people losing their "SIGHT", including myself. Each copy costs $14.95, plus $3 shipping and handling. A wonderful gift for family and friends for birthdays or Christmas!
For more information, or to order,
Contact Lea Seelig Riley
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Title: Dance with Your Heart! Inspirational and Fantasy Books and Poems by Child Prodigy Shirley Cheng, Award-Winning Author
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Be empowered, inspired, and motivated through the inspirational writings, radio interviews, and life story of miracle survivor Shirley Cheng, a blind and physically disabled motivational speaker, poet, author and contributing author of seventeen books by age twenty-four. Despite her multiple physical disabilities, she's living the life she loves and she empowers others to do the same. Subscribe to her monthly newsletter, Inspiration from a Blind, to receive words of inspiration, news and updates on her books.
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Learn to Play Chess
Blind or Visually Impaired? - How You Can Learn to Play Chess!!!
"The Gymnastics of the Brain" or "The Martial Arts of the Mind"
feel the "Thrill of ictory and the Agony of Defeat" or just have fun, a great hobby, wonderful recreation, playing Blind or sighted people alike.
A great way to meet others, take this games of Kings to whatever level you like!!!
please see the Web site of the United States Braille Chess Association
A group of Blind or Visually Impaired Chess enthusiasts who enjoy playing Tournaments or just Friendly Games with those of their own strength and knowledge of this wonderful sport!
the U.S. Braille Chess Association has a listserv. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail message to:
usbcachess-subscribe@topica.com
To join, or for more information, contact:
Alan Dicey, President
United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA
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Handiham Needs You
Ever been interested in Amateur radio? Handiham
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amateur radio. In order to help you out, we have a free DVD about
our program that you can request and use to help spread the word. But wait, folks, that's not all!
Radio campers who pass their first license exam and earn their Technician at Minnesota Radio Camp will be rewarded with a new 2 m handheld radio to get them started off right in amateur radio. How about that?
Campers come from anywhere and everywhere. At the last Minnesota camp we even had a Handiham member from Germany. For people with disabilities, there is often a concern about meeting personal-care needs while away from home. Rest assured that we are equipped to handle these needs so that campers can enjoy what they really came to camp for: a wonderful ham radio experience in a safe, comfortable environment.
The most frequent concern we hear about from people who have not attended the radio camp in the past is that they don't think they can travel. However, campers who make the trip learn that we will be waiting for them at the airport or bus station nearby camp and that there was never anything to worry about in the first place. Once a person has attended camp, they often get home and immediately mark their calendar so they don't miss the next year's camp.
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