Sarah J. Blake,
This blog began as an attempt to help people to understand my experience of living with disabilities. Over time, it has become a place where I share my thoughts about current events, theology, my experiences as a seminary student, and many other things. All of these things play a part in my experience as a person with disabilities; and my experiences as a person with disabilities shape my thoughts and experiences in these other areas. I hope that reading my entries is encouraging and/or educational. If you leave a comment on an older entry, please bear in mind that my thoughts and feelings about some matters have done a good deal of refining over the years and the entry may not reflect my current thinking.
This is the standard end of convention debrief and probably contains many of the standard post-convention observations. I posted it to the ACB-L list and am copying it here simply because some of my readers are not on the list. I have expanded it a bit for this post.
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I am now home from the crazy week that was the American Council of the Blind convention. My cats are happy, and I can tell they did not eat much while I was gone. They are clingy and purry, and it is storming just for me.
I'm now trying to figure out how to wear various hats in my life. I discovered this week how much I miss wearing my disability advocacy hat. I also discovered how much I need to take it off from time to time. I grew up in the "sighted world," and that is my home. How do I mesh all of htese things that I do?
For a long time I have flirted with the idea of starting another blog specifically for theology topics. But every time I consider it seriously, I shrink back from the idea. I begin to feel like this would create the impression that I'm trying to live two lives. Perhaps the only person who would feel that impression is me; but that still matters. I somehow need to manage my various pieces of life so that I don't feel separated from my own self. So I always come back the same decision: posting various topics in one blog because they are all a part of who I am as I live in this house with my three cats lounging around on the beds.
More to come in the days ahead, as the cobb webs clear...
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