The unhappy answer is that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. To cane or not to cane? That is the question.

I've personally struggled with the issue all my life. Some cane users are but many - most according to statistics - are not. Most people in society assume that a white cane means that the person carrying it is totally blind.

The steps on the train are significantly further away.) I can see well at about two inches, where I hold the book. (For the record, yes, I'm very visually impaired but not totally blind. Many blind and visually impaired people avoid using a white cane for a number of reasons, the stigma, the comments, the weird interactions, the physical hassle and the occasional idiot like this one.

The problem was that my white cane was hanging by its thong from the coat rack. Neither of my kids can read very well yet and besides I love reading to them. I was reading a picture book to my kids on the commuter train that takes us to my six-year-old daughter's choir practice. 'If you can read that book, you aren't blind.' 'You're a faker!' the lady on the train berated me while my two small children looked on. This is the second video interview in which I take a look at the factual real-world issues that lurk in the pages of the dystopian fantasy thrillers of the Kyrennei Series. In this next interview on the burning issues of today's dystopian world, I discuss the facts on climate change, the anonymous donor's association that provides the lion's share of the funding for pro-fossil-fuels media and lobbying, what we can do about it and who is the real-world equivalent of J. This is what Fox News and others have done. Fox News doesn't have a lot of scientists to choose from with only three percent inflated to seventy percent, but they try.īut why do they try? The producers and owners must have children too? Can they really be ignorant or are they willfully lying in a dangerous betting game with mass starvation as the stakes? Whatever their motives nearly half of the American public believes that climate change is a hoax and that we can go on burning fossil fuels with impunity. And yet, when Fox News reports on climate issues, seventy percent of the mentions of climate change deny its reality or the role of fossil fuels. This isn't much of a controversy among scientists, at least not among those who aren't directly backed by oil and coal companies. Are you fed up yet? Ninety-seven percent of peer-reviewed scientific papers that touch on the subject are certain climate change (global warming and increases in extreme weather) is happening at a rapid rate and it's caused by human industry and specifically the burning of fossil fuels.

The Soul and the Seed by Arie Farnam