The Creative Mind

As part of my military experience I have been able to travel the world and visited many foreign countries. I have seen many different cultures and ways of life and enjoyed and endless variety of ethnic music. The picturesque scenery of some of these countries was simply breath taking and amazing. Now that I look back I realized how fortunate I was to be able to experience what many other disable people will never have the opportunity to experience. Unfortunately, disabled people seem trapped in a very limited world unable to experience what I have experienced for so many years. Are disabled people really limited due to the lack of some of their senses or aren’t they? Perhaps losing one’s sight and hearing may have close the door to some of life’s experiences, but through our creative mind and the use of our powerful imagination others can be open.

Helen Keller’s gift of sight was slowly taken away and was completely gone by the time she was only nineteen...