July 7th National disability pride month 251 words

July is set aside as National Disabilities Pride Month. Many events and activities will celebrate the diversity and accomplishments of people with disabilities. Many communities will be hosting crafts and food fairs shows. Music, theater and lectures are scheduled throughout the month. People have overcome despite their disabilities.

At the end of the month, there will be a street fair in Grand Rapids Michigan.

As part of the celebration of diversity in the arts, blind poets, artists Lynda Lambert and myself are half way through a year long project to exchange a postcard with original art and a poem for each day of postal delivery. Below is an example of such an exchange using the postal service.

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July 1st Poem 1

The card is an example of a butterfly from the show. It is red and black on a flower stem. On the reverse side, the date July 1st and Poem 1is attached

Butterflies

jeweled visitors

dive, hover, soar

Gather nectar

from flower’s core

I can’t see

what they do

imagination

changes my

point of view

Lynda’s card for that day is an abstract with a piece of a flag embedded in the painting. Swirls of light blue and black with touches of red with white edge. On the reverse is side Lynda’s poem.

I write a poem on Monday

I write a list of 20 words

I write one name and one color

I pick up those words ,one here two there

Keep writing line, more lines

Until the poem is born.