What is it like to be blind

What an interesting question. I remeber steve Wonder running onto the stage in Baltimore. Surrounded by his male friends he ran, a blind man running an impossible thought. But there he was. So in the scale of things the person on the bottom of everything is a blind black girl from Africa. Women r treated badly in Kenya so can u imagine a blind girl unable to defend herself from who or whatever. But on the other hand is Stevie wonder running onto the stage. My point being that with help from others we can do the impossible. As a child I was always in fear of my life from the other boys who used to make my life hell. So if I take that and multiply it by ten I am sure a bit closer to how these brave souls feel. So I want to help them and blind boys as well. I just watched a segment for Capital Talk a wonderful show from Africa and Jeff interviewed Irene who is helping the blind in Africa. So I looked up what she was doing and it was real. There are so many groups in Kenya who help the orphans and drive $40,000 cars and live in Mansions. It is a way to get money for themselves. So seeing her results makes me feel good and a few tears flow as I see her helping with computers in the school just outside Nairobi. So maybe my next mission is to help the blind? So now I will explore the blind character. I remember my social experimentation as a young boy. The beautiful rooster and the ugly rooster. I tied the foot of the beautiful rooster to a rope. And I was so sad as all the ugly rooster could do was spend all his time pecking at the beautiful rooster until finally the beautiful rooster lost his bravado and I let him lose. But the lesson was clear trying to create social justice doesn't work with animals. And in my life I have seen people act just like those roosters and I say to myself are we all just animals. And then I see what Irene has done and I feel so good here is a woman who has a heart and is giving a hand to those who are at the bottom of the scale. So I want to explore the envelope and see if I am wanted in the land of the blind. I don't know that answer but I can see a vision of me doing just that. The question is has the experience of being blind warped there soul. Are blind people the same as all those animals and when empowered will they seek revenge on those sited people. U see I see no limitations in being blind as in my future I may be blind as I am a diabetic and my left eye is slowly loosing sight. Now if u are blind I can here your objections, I can hear ur screams as to how I can say that. But I will smile at them and begin to teach them how to see. One of the most amazing man of the last 100 years was Nicola Tesla. He was the inventor of the ac electric current one of the most amazing discoveries of all time. But he had an interesting talent he could visualize foreign lands and visit and talk to people in his mind. He would design machines in his head and test them. Now does being blind stop anything. Since I read that about him I began to design things in my head and test machines before one visual thing was to be done. I was all excited about a gyroscope on the equator driving a boat. But with experimentation in my mind only I found it didn't work. So if I go blind will it stop me. Hell no because I live in my mind. I love my sight but if I should travel down the world of the blind I will fear not because as long as I have my mind I have everything. Look at Stephen Hawkins a brilliant physicist who can't talk but has written beautiful books and is one of the leading physicist of our time. I am from a time before the keyboard. I still use two fingers to type after 47 years in the business but I have always wanted to design a better keyboard and maybe just maybe I'll get a chance to do so. Also I have another invention perfect for the blind but that is another story. And so Irene this is for u let me help. And next time u see a blind girl slap the shit of some offensive boy u will say I bet she knows Kimball. Because that is my goal to make blind people better than sighted people. And I sigh now and say to mysell yes this is a worthy challenge as tears stream down my cheeks.

My other blog

How interesting. It seems that people have discovered a new way to advertise they respond to ur blog. Well my other blog has been discovered in Russia and now I receive all sorts of junk and a virus or two. I hate viruses just like I hate mosquitoes they are very annoying and that is one of the facts of the internet and the same way in Africa annoying. But that seems to be the way of things. Just like me I can be erudite at times but still chase pussy. It is the human condition as well as for every other mammal. Do u have to teach ur dogs, cats, horses how to fuck. My god at two years old they can do it. In each of us is the underling animal. The human condition has added a new feature. I am not sure what to call it but it rises above sexuality and becomes art, poetry and a few extras. And so many people feel guilty about sex when in reality there is nothing they can do about it except obviously worry about it. WE are a society so obviously we like to control it and make sure it doesn't destroy us. I saw the movie http://www.hulu.com/watch/222548/imagining-Argentina breaks ur heart to see the corruption of power on us who have no power. But the world has changed and for good or bad and we r now connecting. That is the internet, the web, the cloud, ...
Since I last blogged a wave of rebellion has crossed north africa and the arabian world. And Gaddafih is still holding on. By my next blog who know what surprise will happen. Look a Japan at this moment an estimated 18,000 killed by the earthquake. And what happened to there currency, I still shake my head at this, The value of the yen increased and reached a new high. Oh well I don't understand. Wiped my practice currency account out lost $50,000 imaginary dollars.
Sorry for rambling on but the world is now so interesting. Will the infamous six in Kenya ever be tried. What a suspense as in a country where there is no justice just raw power. Will these six and there friends turn away justice? Tune in next blog to find out.
Anyway I write my blog for me not u. Just trying to find me as I look inside the events and times around us. I just allow u share it for a while that is all. And maybe in the future someone somewhere will contribute to these threads which have been put on the web. we learn from discussions. I remember my wonderful time in Kenya as I conversed with George who knew the history of Kenya from a personal view. Wow that was excellent, a great adventure "TED"
Why in Kenya there is so many windmills I almost fainted from the experience.
I am now in the states charging my batteries ready to go back. In Kenya my maid receives 2000ksh a bed and her food. at this moment 2000ksh is $24.00
I have in Kenya 2 wives, 2 children and a maid. And I support them on my social security pension. For what I used to earn $50.00 an hour I could hire about a dozen people or more. So now the challenge is what could i do with 50 workers. For those of u who havn't read my blog I am a computer programmer see www.mrdana.com Now instead of loading registers I can work with people to build whatever I want. In a new country who in a few months will be like 1776 in america. I wish I had some fellow travelers but for some reason I am too far away from the main stream of things. I am sure the early explores felt the same way being the first is great for the ego but a very lonely place.
In the next few weeks I have to decide where I will go and what I will do. I have very little money and that is a good thing. Money tends to get in the way. Ever try putting the horse behind the cart it is difficult at best actually the best analogy is backing up with a trailer on behind.
First must come the ideas unfettered by the worry about money. After the idea is born then u get the money. We love to do things the hard way. We say we need money before the baby is born. I could ramble on for a month about money but the best advice is to forget about money and let the mind flow to find out what u need to do.

Until next time
Jambo Sana