Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Anne-with-an-e will love this
Given that she loves all things that relate to, have anything to do with, make her think of, or even remotely resemble Helen Keller, Anne will love this: Google is in braille today.
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Hoohoo!
My dd too!
I would have missed this!
Thanks for the alert.
Cay
I wonder if Anne would like to be a penpal with a little blind girl? I'm not sure whether my blind niece might be interested, but I'll check it out if you think Anne might enjoy it. Niece loves all things Narnia, but is growing up Reformed not Catholic. Of course the Narnia loving niece only reads Braille... and her first language is Chinese, not Japanese, but she's pretty fluent in English.
My kids on the other hand are learning bits and pieces of Japanese because of their interest in Animai (which I decidely do not share - YUCK!) Son is currently reading Confucius and trying to figure out how eastern philosophy like Greek philosophy fits with Catholic thought. I'd rather read Church fathers myself.
Liz
We spotted it :-). My dd fixated on Louis Braille when she was about 5, and has been enthusiastic about anything in that line since, including Helen Keller.
I didn't catch it the first time I looked at it, but if you move your cursor over the braille letters, it will say, "Happy Birthday, Louis Braille." :-)
Liz, What an interesting idea! Let me know what your niece thinks ....
Please tell Anne that I was exactly the same way at her age. I read every book on Helen Keller there was and wanted to become a teacher of the blind and deaf like Anne Sullivan. Recognizing the seriousness of my commitment, my mother actually took me to the Lighthouse, a school for the blind, so that I could volunteer. The administrators there were kind, but I was only ten years old, so they told me to come back in eight years! Still, I appreciate my mother's initiative. She was a homeschooler at heart, I guess.
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