[Ansteorra] mobility issues

[Rhonda and Stephen Hays]

Eyeglasses are period.  13th century.  Round is the shape that I saw on the 
woodcut that had a guy not only wearing them, but selling them.  Read it in 
a book on technology of the middle ages at a college library where I did not 
have check out rights.  They had it illustrated with the woodcut.  Just 
can't lay hands on the notebook where I wrote down the reference.

Medb Liath
13th century chick who has succumbed to another ravage of age...reading 
glasses.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Zakes" <moondrgn at earthlink.net>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] mobility issues


> At 09:57 PM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
>
>>(snip several good points)
>
>>As far as anyone telling somebody that their wheelchair spoils things for 
>>them...Just give me a holler. I don't have any problems dealing with 
>>people like that. I've heard of folks that complain about people wearing 
>>glasses and having it spoil the ambience, but no one has ever said it to 
>>me. I'd love to take mine off and give both of their blurry faces a good 
>>talking to.
>
>
> Precisely. It doesn't matter if you're talking about something as simple 
> as glasses, or something elaborate like a powered wheelchair. I don't know 
> of *anyone* who, if given a choice between having a disability and not 
> having it, would say "no, I like my wheelchair better than walking", or 
> "no, I like wearing glasses better than having 20/20 vision."
>
> This isn't a question of ignorance, like the lady who had that great story 
> about the Snoopy bedsheet T-tunic, or lack of money (unless you're 
> comparing glasses to eye surgery) or SCA traditions and historical 
> accuracy like the discussion of "autocrat" vs "steward". It's a question 
> of necessity for the disabled person, to be able to cope with life as best 
> they may. That puts it into a far different category from the folks who 
> either don't know or don't care about how the SCA is supposed to work.
>
>         -Tivar Moondragon
>
>
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