October 30 Disabilities Awareness Item

Hi Friends

Thank you to everyone who has given indications that you are interacting at least some with the content of my messages.

Thank you to the Friend who finds a paragraph or so in several entries to relate to. I am aware it’s too much. In case my comments have not made it clear, it’s too much for me too BUT

1. I am aware this approach to mass eldering is kind of annoying. I am also aware that additional increments of wordsmithing would not necessarily lessen the annoyance level enough to be worthwhile for quick dispatches.

2. I am aware of having both muddled and seemingly contradictory messages as well as complicated circumstances in mind about some topics. The fact that they are “too much” does not mean this does not need to be talked of further, but there is plenty here for today.

3. I am not even trying to guess at things that would speak to everyone with the same points and I think too much wordsmithing might scrub out some particularity that speaks particularly to one or another person.
Here is a blog item about this last point, with a number of other good links inside it.
http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2011/03/spoons-and-twitches.html  .

I mentioned being willing to talk about my white cane. It’s not like you all are obliged to ask, but there are a couple more clear messages I probably need to make sure get through in addition to the moments below from my blog. Using my white cane REALLY helps as far as some back and neck issues. Using a white cane SOMETIMES increases the odds that bus drivers will do things I find helpful, some of which like calling stops they are supposed to do anyway. I have a time or two tried to have conversations with someone about a Meeting-related issue connected with my cane. Some of the time there has been fine progress. A time or two, someone has missed key points or their eyes have glazed over. Hold that point in the Light.
Here are an assortment of especially piquant adventures, some of which could probably be boiled down to a couple paragraphs containing the point. In other cases, the totality of the story is really part of the point.

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2011/07/healed-blessed-jesus.html

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2011/06/not-blind-that-we-know-of.html

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2011/06/artifact.html

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2010/09/radical-dialogue-for-ramadan.html

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2010/06/allergic-to-joy-and-peace.html

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-are-all-transgendered-now.html

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-valentines-day-rantwoman-style.html

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2009/12/ambassador-thwacks-school-of-percussive.html


Oh Good: some more cheerful statistics
Disability.gov   shared this report comparing crimes against people with and without disabilities, 2008 thru 2010 The report is based on the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS).

Highlights include the following:

• Persons age 12 or older who had disabilities experienced an estimated 567,000 nonfatal violent crimes in 2010.
• In 2010, the age-adjusted violent victimization rate for persons with disabilities (28 violent victimizations per 1,000) was almost twice the rate among persons without disabilities (15 violent victimizations per 1,000).
• In 2010, for both males and females the age-adjusted rate of violent crime was greater for those with disabilities than the rate against those without disabilities. The rate for males with disabilities was 23 per 1,000, compared to 16 per 1,000 for males without disabilities; for females with disabilities the rate was 26 per 1,000, compared to 15 per 1,000 for females without disabilities.

Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, http://bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2238



On a completely different note, an item from my blogroll possibly of interest to people with fundraising or Meeting architecture concerns, an item about a Turrell Skyspace to be installed at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in North Philadelphia
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/art-entertainment-sports/item/29004-chestnut-hill-on-track-to-get-a-james-turrell-skyspace-building

In the Light

(RantWoman)