Michael Nye Podcast

Episode 14 - Roseanne Rodriguez 

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Episode 12 - Ann Humphries

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Episode 11 - Olivia Chavez 

I’ve never felt ashamed or embarrassed to be blind. I had a very rare cancer, so I’ve never felt guilty. There are challenges. I have felt isolated sometimes because of my blindness. I’ve thought that if I could see, maybe people might be more accepting or open with me. Many times conversations are centered on how I read or how I get around, but they’re not interested in my life. It’s more like a curiosity.

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Episode 10 - Virgil Stinnett  

I don’t believe blindness is a disability because I am able to do things that I want to do. I am a pacific islander who just so happens to be blind and carries a white cane. I work in the food service industry as a Department of Defense contractor. I service our troops which I proudly do because they are out there risking their life for our freedom. Currently I have 43 employees.   

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Episode 9 - Frances Fuentes

I know how it feels to be sighted and to be blind. When I was sighted, I could see the world. And now that I’m completely blind, I just feel it, taste it. It’s just like stepping from one dimension to another. It’s just like me being bilingual. I could either speak to someone in Spanish or speak to someone in English. Blindness is a different language. I know both sides, dark and light.

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Episode 8 - Juanito Castillo

What I’m trying to say is that not everything is always going to be perfect. We’re all flawful. We all have room for improvement. There is an urgency to live while you can. I believe that no matter what you do, moderation is the key to maintaining yourself and maintaining your sanity. I can deal with some imperfections. Not every drum set is going to be in tune and not everyone is going to have duct tape. So, you got to work with what you have. It’s the only way that you’ll fulfill your purpose in life, without being spoon fed the baby food.

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Episode 7 - Host Michael Nye - Preview

Preview of upcoming episodes. 

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Episode 6 - Katie Keim

In those early months of blindness, I had to relearn spatial relationships. I was walking with my mother one day near her home. It was a soundless and windless day. I experienced walking by a large ponderosa pine tree and hearing that it was next to me through my arm and my skin. Not through my ears, not through my eyes that didn’t work anymore, not through the smells or taste in the wind, but through my skin I heard it. I have no other way of describing it than hearing it through my skin. So the sensations started to come back to me in the realization that I’d always heard them. I’d always felt them. I’ve always smelled them, tasted them, touched them. But I’d always thought I’d seen them. I realized then, I could still see without seeing.

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Episode 5 - Burns Taylor

Burns Taylor is a teacher, poet and essayist. He said, “My sister was probably the most important person in my life. One night we went outside. She took my hand and pointed it toward the evening star. We sang together, Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight. That it was important to make a wish on a star. I couldn’t see and she gave me the faith to believe in myself and in the world around me.” Burn’s latest book — Hands Like Eyes, is a book of poems, songs and fantasies.

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