First Post

As I begin a new blog, titled 'The Deaf Can," I think of the numerous times, when I've been told that I, being Deaf, couldn't do something.
Let's see....the first must have been, when I wanted to drive. We lived on a farm, out in the country, where kids drove all the time.
Back in the mid-'70's, it didn't seem like that area would ever be populated, but now, the wooded area is gone and the lone plant is rusting over.
The fact that the sheriff only came out, when someone wrote a bad check meant it was easy to drive the backroaes, at young ages and not get caught.

Back in 1973, after we'd moved back to Stevens Pottery, GA, I was alone in the yard - they thought I was cutting the grass....I'd go for a ride because the family never took the keys out of the ignition of the automobiles and they used to leave two or three cars, in the yard.

By the time I was in high school, I became interested in playing the drums.
Again, I was told this was something Deaf people couldn't do. So, when I began college at Christ for the Nations Institute, I sought out a student drummer, who was willilng to teach me and I learned the basics in a few months.

Not only that, when I moved back to Dallas, in 1987, a Deaf Fellowship was abouit to go belly-up, after approximately 10 years. When it died, I was there and took the task of evangelizing the area of Deaf people, who didn't have a church home.
My motivation was simple: I'd been told this task would be impossible for a Deaf person to do and, again, the Word says "I can do ALL things, through Christ..."

And now, if I can just figure out how to publish pictures in a blog, I'll have succeeded in something I've been telling myself I cannot do.
Of course, this isn't because of deafness...the problem, here, is nothing more than the fact that I am compu-illiterate.