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by Kevin Burton This time of year I get multiple notifications of this group or that group observing White Cane Awareness Day. I tend to gloss them over, but I shouldn’t. The fact that I can is a testament to the dedication and determination to the many blind people (and our sighted …
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by Kevin Burton One of the greatest vocal performances in my time as a consumer of pop music is on a song that leaves me deeply conflicted; Stoney End by Barbara Streisand. The song grabbed me on some level immediately upon its 1971 release, even before I had the life experience to understand …
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by Kevin Burton If you have ever suffered a slip of the tongue, or a trip and all out tumble, you will appreciate the first of our words today from Merriam-Webster. Who among us hasn’t reached for a word, deployed it with great confidence, only to find it mangled in some way, often …
by Kevin Burton I don’t regret having read the backs of so many baseball cards so much as a youth, but I do wish I had mixed in a few more of the better works of literature. Today we get some of what I missed out on, from a list compiled by Merriam-Webster …
by dictionaryscoop.com We all remember palindromes from our childhood years. Funny sentences that read the same forward as backward. Some are short, some incredibly long, and while some do make sense, most of them are surrealist, to say the least. From the whimsical “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!” to the succinct …
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by Kevin Burton I’m sitting in the dark, on the couch my mom gave us. I hear the sound of a train in the distance. There is romance, poetry in the sound. I’m in the Man Cave and it couldn’t be mancavier. Two smallish beacons of light accompany the night without interrupting …
by Kevin Burton If you love Shakespeare, or cats, or both, today I’ve got you covered. I’m not as familiar with the works of Shakespeare as I am the works of say, Three Dog Night. I say this to my own shame. But I know cats. I love cats, sure as I’m …
by Kevin Burton I went literary on you last Friday. Hope that was OK. I wrote about my mother moving to an assisted living facility and the parallels for that move and my move to the Ohio State School for the Blind as a fourth grader in 1972 (“Love, Tears And Doing The …
by Kevin Burton There is one much overdue good deed I will not get to do. I was looking through my language arts books for a Spanish text I got from my sister. The text was actually property of Wichita West High School and should have been returned to them. I never …
by Kevin Burton Which people from the words of popular music would you like to spend a little more time with? Which characters can you think of who if they showed up in a movie or a TV series you would be eager to watch? There are plenty of songs that are …
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