"For four years, I resisted using a cane. I either relied on family members or just took my chances. When I fell due to my lack of depth perception, I’d laugh it off, pretend I was doing push-ups, or act like I meant to run into that stop sign. But at 22, I finally had enough. That’s when I walked through the doors of the Colorado Center for the Blind," said Abdi Ali-Mumin, an O&M instructor.
Read more in the April 2025 issue of the Braille Monitor: https://buff.ly/ZKQG9jG
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Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM Eastern While You Were Sleeping audio described movie
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Lucy Eleanor Moderatz is a lonely fare token collector for the Chicago Transit Authority, stationed at the Randolph/Wabash station. She secretly loves Peter Callaghan, a handsome commuter, though they are strangers. On Christmas Day, she rescues Peter from the oncoming Chicago "L" train after muggers push him onto the tracks. She accompanies the comatose Peter to the hospital, where a nurse overhears her musing aloud, "I was going to marry him." Misinterpreting, the nurse tells his family that she is his fiancée.
The family admits they haven't heard from Peter in a long time so being engaged is a surprise. Lucy becomes too caught up in the crisis to explain the truth. She remains silent for several reasons: She is embarrassed; Peter's grandmother, Elsie, has a heart condition; and Lucy falls in love with Peter's big, loving family. While visiting Peter, she confesses her predicament to him, unaware Peter's godfather Saul overhears the truth and later confronts her. Saul finds that Lucy is alone, her mother died when she was very young and her dad just passed the year prior. He says he will keep her secret because the accident has brought the family closer and he knows that Lucy isn't being malicious.
With no family and few friends, Lucy becomes so captivated with the quirky Callaghans and their unconditional love for her that she is unable to hurt them by revealing that Peter does not know her. She spends a belated Christmas with them, then meets Peter's younger brother Jack, who is supposed to take over his father's furniture business, though he wants his own business. Jack is initially suspicious, but he falls in love with Lucy as they spend time together. She soon falls in love with him. They bond over their similar humor, their dreams of traveling, and their intense love for the Callaghans. Although their relationship comes to a momentary standstill when Jack, due to a misunderstanding, announces her "pregnancy" during her friend's New Year's Eve party, prompting them to have an argument eventually revealing their mutual dissatisfaction with life. Meanwhile, Peter's actual girlfriend, who we only know as Ashley, has agreed to marry him on his answering machine and leaves follow-up messages about his non-responsiveness, saying she has come back to town and wants to see him.
After New Year's Eve, Peter wakes up. He does not know Lucy, so it is assumed he has amnesia. Lucy attempts to tell the family the truth, but they assume she is telling them she's not really pregnant and they brush it off. Saul intercepts Lucy, saying he will handle telling the news to the Callaghans. Jack takes her back home and Lucy tells him she appreciates how kind he's been and says he's been a great friend. Jack is finally able to tell his father he doesn't want to take over the business and wants to make furniture. His father not only understands but says he should've told him sooner.
Saul visits Peter and tells him what a putz he is for how he treats women and he'd be lucky to marry Lucy, that she is special. Lucy and Peter begin spending time together and he realizes what a sweet girl she is. Meanwhile, Ashley Bartlett Bacon has come back to the city and finds from Peter's doorman that he's now engaged and he's in the hospital. She gets there and confronts him, saying they are engaged but he said no, they broke up when she turned down his offer not knowing she accepted over his answering machine. He tells her that he's a changed man and is marrying Lucy now. Lucy finds out that Saul never told the Callaghans she's not Peter's fiancée and goes back to the hospital to tell him herself. Peter tells Lucy how much he cares for her and proposes to her "again" and Lucy accepts, though she is now in love with Jack. When Jack visits her the day before the wedding, she gives him a chance to change her mind, asking if he can give her a reason not to marry Peter. He replies that he cannot, leaving her disappointed.
On the day of the wedding, just as a priest begins the ceremony, Lucy blurts out, "I object," and Jack chimes in, objecting to the wedding as well. Lucy finally confesses everything and tells the family she not only fell in love with all of them, but she loves Jack rather than Peter. At this point, Peter's real fiancée, Ashley, arrives and demands the wedding be stopped. A man also arrives objecting, and declaring he is Ashley's husband, to which the priest mutters "get in line." As the family argues, Lucy slips out unnoticed, unsure of her future.
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Below are a couple of links to our ride share rally in San Francisco covered by the media!
https://youtu.be/boZiWwRADkw?si=hdRVLYbLh13hN1S2
Here is a great video on YouTube of the rally on Saturday from NBC news San Francisco
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Friday, September 13, 2024
The Road To El Dorado (2000)Audio describe movie starting at 8:00 PM Eastern
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Come join us on Friday, August 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM Eastern for Name That Tune.
Requesting you come early in order to put people on teams. The room will be open at 7:45 PM Eastern.
Rules for Name That Tune
Stay muted unless your team is up.
No cheating.
Have fun!
TV Theme Song Category: 1 point.
only have to name the TV show to get 1 point.
If your team guesses wrong, another team can steal to get the point. If the team that stole does not get the correct answer, they will lose 1 point.
Decade : 2 points
name the artist and song for 2 points. If you correctly name the artist or song, you’ll get 1 point. another team will be able to steal to get the point(s) if they are able to get the correct answer. If the team that stole does not get the correct answer. They will lose a point(s).
Movie Theme Songs: 7 points
There are 3 parts to each tune for this category. You must name the artist song and movie in order to receive the full 7 points. For each answer you get correct, you will receive 2 points. If you get all three, you get a bonus point, totaling 7.
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I hope you will join me on Friday, August 23, 2024 at 8:00 PM eastern for the audio described movie 42! If you have not seen this movie, you are missing a great movie!
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