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Show f -C Mutter file I (Rainbow f i I & I'm, i AM Poi-nti In B&fueen J ' BY r' " I y Ever think what It would be like to be unable to see and hear. Sometimes we take our sight and other senses so much for granted that we seldom envision what it must be like to be without them. Helen Keller was born unable un-able to see or hear yet she developed and utilized her remaining senses -touch . . .. taste . . . sense of smell, and in some measure meas-ure came to know colors she would never see and sounds she would never hear. We often comment on the animals below us In the chain of life. . . their Instincts are many. . . they use them constantly. con-stantly. According to Helen, in her autobiography, she ! felt that Man, too, has his instincts. . . a legacy from generations long past. She wrote "It seems to me that there is In each of us a capacity to comprehend compre-hend the Impressions and emotions which Mankind has expressed from the beginning. begin-ning. Each Individual has a subconcious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters. . . and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations." Helen called this memory a 6th sense she called it 'A Soul Sense', which sees -hears - feels - and knows -all In one. A gift we don't cultivate unless we are forced to fall back upon it. Too many of us see each day as the same. Winter Is gray and dull, Summer Is hot and dusty. Skies are the same blue grass the same green. If we've seen one sunset or moon- glow, we've seen them all. Someday, when we have more time, we'll do it. We'll see and enjoy all of life, sometime. But not today. Today business is pressing, Today my efforts are needed elsewhere. I have no time to experience Today. We don't have to look at the world through rose colored glasses. In fact, we need no glasses at all to see with the heart. Children Chil-dren do it very well, until we teach them to ignore and overcome those natural tendencies. . . quit the fool-Jshness, fool-Jshness, and 'get to work'. Our sixth sense. . . a legacy from the past. Not needed in our present stage of the Game? I wonder . . . |