Winding down and ramping up.

Bf Barry and guide dog Oyster (not Lester) are back for a pre-Christmas visit and join us as our additional Outlook crew.

The Centre for Independent Living Toronto, Fanshawe College and George Brown and Toronto Metropolitan University, Disability Without Poverty, and Alliance For Equality of Blind Canadians all celebrate December 3rd’s United Nations International Day of/for Persons With Disabilities along with our other holiday related news.

This week on the show we’re pre-recording because of last minute 70th birthday celebrations, but we did a Friday night recording discussing IDPD and related events, Barry shares his AI personal assistance/unpaid testers and snowy return to Canada diaries, and we discuss how “seeing isn’t knowing” on this Mixed Bag Early December episode.

We’ve been eating a lot of cake lately and we talk Thanksgiving in the States, how this time of year can be a difficult one for many, and yet the arrival of changes of the holiday season becoming more diverse. On a high note, Happy 70th birthday to our dad, who met our mom 50 years ago this month, while we look back a few weeks ago to a special honouring of an early sibling organ transplant story at London, Ontario’s Health Sciences Centre.

Brother/co-host Brian’s been winding down as the end of this year draws near while sister/co-host Kerry has been ramping up with Blind Beginnings, (more about that in January).

Give Leona’s article a read:

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/blindness-photography-paul-strand-walker-evans-jacob-riis-1234763708/

Check out the George Brown/TMU event with David Lepofsky:

https://tinyurl.com/4k85hpnh