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Letter from America
Sullivan County, New York
5th January 2012
By Ellen Neumann
Ellen NeumannYesterday I spent the afternoon at my Mom’s house (now my sister’s house considering Mom has been dead for a couple of years). We whiled away the hours lost in old crumbling photo albums, reading precious ancient letters written by long-gone relatives and enjoying the secrets from our shared past with some of our children, a niece and a few grandchildren. Kathleen, my sister, is 10 years my junior. She and her Johnnie shared our childhood home with Mom during her twilight years, caring for her and making the last part of her life very happy. Kathy is her baby, you see, the apple of her eye. Although Mom loved us all equally and unconditionally, a special and inexplicable bond existed between my mother and her youngest child. Kathy, you see, is the Sweet One. Oh yes! She is! Mom said so and Mom never lied to us, her four wild and wonderful offspring. I am the eldest child, sister, aunt and so on. I married early and gave Mom her first grandchild and, in turn, her first great-grandchild. All fine and good yet never elevating me to that esteemed position of The Sweet One. The Holy Grail; The Golden Apple; the Brass Ring. Call it what you will and try as I might, never to be attained in my lifetime.
Although we [my sister Peggy and I], like all normal children, would have liked to be considered Mom’s “favourite” at least some of the time, we rarely experienced jealousy or coveted the title. My siblings (brother included), felt pretty much the same although at times that was questionable on the part of all of us. We vied for my mother’s attention constantly, right up to the point of her failing health and weakened heart in her octogenarian years. In retrospect, we did not help Mom’s failing heart with our constant demands for emotional support and the stressful drama we created. Yet she would have it no other way. Her motto was “One for all, all for one”; “Family first, foremost and forever”. No variance. She wanted to know what we were doing and be included in our every adventure. She would be ready to “go and do and run” at the drop of a hat; never passing on a chance to spend time with one or many of us. Yet it was my baby sister Kathleen who held Mom’s heart in her hand. To the very end, Kathy’s feelings were her prime consideration. She inevitably depended on Kathleen for everything and anything. My baby sister did not let her down, not ever.
Mom was raised the youngest of three children in a large Irish/American farm family in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. She lived and died on the family farm, never leaving, never fading or faltering. She left behind a legacy of love and courage that no words can explain or do justice to. She was her mother’s youngest child; a premature miracle baby born in the 1920s when infant mortality was at a high rate. She was the Sweet One in her nuclear family, cherished as a gift from God. I guess that had something to do with her intense relationship with her Kathleen, her own Sweet One.
I once asked my mother who was her favourite. Did I say once? I must have asked her a million times until one day she gave me her answer. “The one who needs me the most, he/she is my favourite child.” That shut me up on the subject, for a while anyway. As a mother, grandmother and aunt, I now understand exactly what she meant, I do. Still my inner child wonders what it would be like to be “the Sweet One”. Maybe in my next life?
Ah Mom, I miss you so.
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Letter from America
Sullivan County, New York
27th December 2011.
Written by Ellen Neumann
Ellen NeumannAs the New Year approaches, I ponder. What will 2012 bring? Here in the USA we face a National election, unprecedented debt and a very high unemployment rate. Europe faces the possible breakdown of the European Union; a system that on paper works gloriously yet seems to be failing in reality as small countries such as Ireland struggle to remain solvent while large countries such as Germany vie for more control. The Middle East remains a hot bed of political revolution. Worldwide we see dramatic changes in weather conditions, creating “natural disasters” frequently and violently. Where will it all lead us in the next twelve months?
Our National election, which occurs every four years, has the entire country buzzing. In 2008 we elected Barack Obama as our president. His big campaign *“shtick” was the promise of change. He would work to repair our floundering economy, to create a National Healthcare System so every American would have access to medical care and end the war in Iraq. Mr. Obama is a black man, the first to be elected to our highest office. Much of the opposition he meets stems from the fact that many people in this country still do not accept a man of color as their commander and chief. “Oh NO! Not TRUE!” the haters will cry out! “Oh YES!” says I. Let’s see it for what it is. Prejudice, plain and simple, still thrives in the abyss of American Society. Masked by titles such as “Tea Party”, racism lurks and rears its ugly head over and over again; preventing our president from doing his job effectively. Will he win the election this time?? Who knows! If he does, he will have broken down another wall of ignorance. Only then may he have a shot at fixing what is wrong with this country during his last term of office.
Your problems in Europe are much more complex. I do not understand them well enough to offer a valid opinion. What I am about to say is what my heart tells me, not necessarily what is true. The EU operates as a common group of separate entities. You share the same currency [for the most part], open your borders to each other and claim a degree of unification. Yet you don’t really consider yourselves as one, therefore eliminating any chance of success. You speak different languages, have different laws and act as individual countries. The “big dogs” seem to bully their smaller partners instead of protecting and supporting them. Threats are made to each other instead of promises. From the outside looking in, it appears that the EU is facing possible extinction in the future unless it can come together and seriously strive for unity. That will take great concession and sacrifice on the part of all in order to be accomplished. My opinion not hard fact and extended with great respect.
The Middle East. No one has been able to fix that hot mess since recorded history began. I have no wise words that have not already been offered. Revolution will continue through 2012 as technology and social networking make it possible for the people of the Middle East to effectively voice their plight. Best we in the western world mind our own business and stay out of theirs. That might sound hard but we need to “clean our own houses” instead of littering theirs with ideals they do not want or share.
Our climate has changed at an alarmingly rapid rate. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados and Tsunami’s are frequent and more devastating than we are able to comprehend. Droughts in vast portions of the world are leading to starvation and disease that are beyond or realm of understanding. Green living is no longer the dream of what we jokingly used to call the “tree huggers” but instead a planet-wide necessity. My generation of Baby Boomers does not take seriously the need for recycling, preserving and protecting our precious natural resources. I need to heed my own words here for I am guilty as sin.
Ready or not, here it comes! 2012 is here, equipped with the challenges I have mentioned and some new ones we have never dreamed of.
Bring it on!
*Yiddish, In common usage, the word shtick has also come to mean any talent, style, habit, or other eccentricity for which a person is particularly well-known,
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Funny how time flies
Written by Ellen Neumann
Sullivan County, New York
8th December 201
One moment, we are kids without a care in the world. "Will a certain boy ever fall in love with me?" or "I wonder if my mom will let me wear makeup yet”, our only worries. Time passes so slowly, friends come and go, school never seems to end; can't wait to drive, smoke, marry, work or move out. Can't wait! Parents are incredibly invincible, towers of power. Summers are full of amazing adventure and excitement, ever-loving grandparents on the farm and strawberry ice cream. No clocks, no shoes, not a care in the world! The light of day shines into the night. Youth is our drug of choice; endless energy is our cocktail. Time is our friend, our mentor, our security.
A few years ago I was a guest, a family reunion of sorts. My aunt [wife of my father's brother] was honoured with a party for her 75th birthday. My mother, sisters, brother, daughter, grandchildren and I all attended. I have nine cousins on my father’s side of the family; none on my mother’s. We are scattered to the wind, living from shore to shore with most of us in between. I have not seen many of my cousins in five, ten, OH MY! Some of them not for twenty years! I looked forward to the day but anticipated nothing special. I was pleasantly mistaken.
I found MYSELF in the faces of these precious cousins. I had forgotten what it was like to see faces that so closely mirrored my own. Not that we all look exactly alike for we don't. Yet there is something; a common factor about our "look", our mannerism, our essence. Some more than others; some less, though definitely present in us all; the common thread of physical kinship is evident. A secure feeling; knowing that we “belong” to a common unit of humanity, regardless of the many years that have separated us, we are miraculously one. The sameness of a shared surname, the common tears shed for loved ones now dead, the pride in family, OUR family, all of us.
We were all happy that day; so happy; genuinely HAPPY to be together, to talk, [though awkward for some of us at first]; to laugh together, hug and kiss; to embrace each other over and then over again. The day was sweet, warm, slow and wonderful. Like the long ago summer, the day would last forever it seemed, magical, a moment in time. We basked in our common love for family, for each other, for those gone before us and those yet to come.
Finally came the time for us to part: I lingered. I did not want this day to end. I wanted to cling to that feeling of blessed peace; the miraculous healing of my heart. I wanted to freeze that feeling, not let it escape into the coming night. An extra kiss, a tighter hug and a promise of more times such as this were repeated by all. The day was done and I left with a feeling of utter joy and sweetness. The day had ended and I came away with a memory that will last forever.
But OH! How the time flew by!!
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How to type without using your fingers!
Speech recognition is a very important tool for people who have a physical disability, and cannot use their fingers properly on a PC or laptop.
This simple article is an example of what can be achieved using the common commands in speech recognition which are available to people in this situation.
If you have windows 7 or higher, this updated programme is available to help you.
I suffer from a pinched nerve in my upper spine which makes using a keyboard nearly impossible these days.
Since I have to spend many hours writing and editing every day, it became vital that I found an alternative method of doing these tasks without using my right hand.
To achieve this, I discovered in my control panel a programme called ‘Ease of Access Center’ (Win 7).
All I needed then was a microphone connected to my PC, laptop. From there, the instructions were straight forward. You can do the same. All you have to do is go to your control panel, click on ‘ease of access’, and then ‘speech recognition’. It will ask you to start voice recognition, and set up a microphone.
There is a speech tutorial which I recommend you look at first, then, there is a section titled –training your computer to understand you, followed by – open the speech reference card. This allows you to view and print a list of common commands so you always know what to say.
This is a list of common commands in speech recognition which you can print out and which will give you the ability to control the various commands needed to complete a written article.
Yes, it takes some practice, and it can be very frustrating, you may find that sometimes the word which you have spoken appears incorrectly in your document, but this is easily changed by saying ’spell’. However, once you get the hang of it, your disability will vanish and you can create any document using this program.
Simple tasks such as inserting a comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, etc are a little bit more difficult, but if you follow the instructions, these grammar basics will also become easy to master.
The trick is to practice and get the computer used to your voice.
Everything that can be done on a keyboard using your fingers can be replicated via speech recognition.
To produce this written document has taken me hours of practice. My next goal is to attempt to edit an article.
Your disability should not stop you from writing.
Learn to use the tools that are available on your computer/laptop and get your message across. .
This article was produced using Microsoft ‘Ease of Access Centre’
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