'Don't Hate Me Cause I'm Beautiful'..or..I Get My WHEELCHAIR And Freedom

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Well, Today's special..it's time for a change....it's.a wheelchair and freedom. So, there's NO need to feel pity for me folks.... Just change your mind, like we have, and see me in my new' freedomchair' as I do. Active again, doing things again,, and so happy. Steve's in our barn, getting the same wheelchair that I've refused time and time again off and on since 1999. AND, We're both excited and hopeful...more activities, more gigs, so more music, yes, more friends...MORE LIFE. Well, you might say, what happened? What changed your mind? Jan huh?
The video below was one of the first things that helped me realized I had excepted and internalized society's negative images and beliefs about using a wheelchair, well, NO more, life's too wonderful I won't miss even a minute. I have spent about the past three years in our home alone, and that has taught so much. I wouldn't have missed THAT either. The video's called SUE AUSTIN: DEEP SEA DIVING IN A WHEELCHAIR , from TEDtalksDirector....And, this is what the video page says: " Published on Jan 8, 2013

When Sue Austin got a power chair 16 years ago, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom -- yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she aims to convey the spirit of wonder she feels wheeling through the world. Includes thrilling footage of an underwater wheelchair that lets her explore ocean beds, drifting through schools of fish, floating free in 360 degrees. (Filmed at TEDxWomen.)
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Below find some related video links. Jan

1.] AMANDA PALMER: THE ART OF ASKING, from TEDtalksDirector
2.] EVELYN GLENNIE:  LEARNING TO LISTEN, from TEDtalksDirector