[Ansteorra] mobility issues
Rhonda and Stephen Hays
housedragonstar at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 15 18:32:05 PDT 2005
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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