Aug. 3rd, 2002

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In a few minutes, I need to head out the door and down to the marina. I'm helping Ben with the Easter Seals "Cruise for Kids," in which boaters organize to take severely disabled kids and their families out for a day on the harbor.

I should mention at this point that most disabled-children charities make me extremely uncomfortable, Jerry "You don't want to be pitied because you're in a wheelchair? Stay in your house." Lewis especially, but at first glance the Easter Seals people look okay. And I'm liking the idea that I'll be down there, visibly disabled, as an ordinary part of a boat crew rather than as either (a) a recipient of charity, or (b) a carefully selected and lauded "role model." I think it's good for disabled kids to see that, and know that it's possible.

I leave you with a link, courtesy of my favorite weblog of all time, Theresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Light: Monty Python stuffed toys. Including a live parrot, who is just resting.

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