Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

  • It’s Not Hard, But It It Is Serious: #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    It’s Not Hard, But It It Is Serious: #HowEyeSeeIt

    Warren is interested in becoming a blind vendor after graduation on October 5. That’s why he took on the task of working with the Center soda machine. He gives us his thoughts on the HowEEyeSeeIt challenge – a fund-raising campaign that invites participants to mimick blindness and call for funding a cure.

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  • Matt Can Type – It’s Not a Challenge! #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    Matt Can Type – It’s Not a Challenge! #HowEyeSeeIt

    Believe it or not, the HowEyeSeeIt campaign hsows folks who are convinced they couldn’t type without their vision. Elementary thinking, and a pretty basic skill that Matt mastered long ago.

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  • Cooking with Christian #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    Cooking with Christian #HowEyeSeeIt

    Mastering the ordinary is not extraordinary for blind people, but that mastery is the foundation for living the lives we want extraordinarily! Christian has been doing a lot of cooking this week, putting in place more of the building blocks for the future he wants for himself.

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  • A Bow Tie (Pasta) Occasion: Jimmy’s Mini-meal

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    Dan Burke

    A Bow Tie (Pasta) Occasion: Jimmy’s Mini-meal

    While one fund-raising organization is sponsoring the #HowEyeSeeIt social media campaign designed to show that blind people can’t do anything, our students here at the Colorado Center for the Blind keep learning every day that they can “Take Charge with Confidence” and “Live the Lives We Want.” Take Jimmy’s mini-meal for example …

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  • The first cut is the hardest: Marlene on the chop saw

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    Dan Burke

    The first cut is the hardest: Marlene on the chop saw

    … or maybe it’s not if you have a career behind you as a surgical nurse.

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  • No let-up this week – not with Seniors in Charge!

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    Dan Burke

    No let-up this week – not with Seniors in Charge!

    Littleton’s 2016 Western Welcome Week, including our tours and participation in the Saturday parade, was sure a lot of fun! This week has already seen Matt complete his support drop, our canoeing trip postponed due to thunder, our first rock climbing trip today for the (really?) fall! Even as the 10-day Western Welcome Week celebration…

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  • Everybody loves the #WesternWelcomeWeek Parade!

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    Dan Burke

    Everybody loves the #WesternWelcomeWeek Parade!

    Students and staff are getting ready for tomorrow’s Western Welcome Week Parade – the highlight of the 10-day celebration in Littleton. After opening our doors for tours and at the same time graduating two of our students, it’s a fun way to end the week. What could be better than walking down the middle of…

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  • Tuesday Morning Snapshots

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    Dan Burke

    Tuesday Morning Snapshots

    While Marlene is getting ready to serve her final graduation meal (for 60) and Brigid is working on her own grad meal for tomorrow, let’s look back at Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, the extraordinary smells of both Christian’s chicken kababs and Kierra’s pot of red beans and rice cooking all Tuesday morning cannot be conveyed successfully…

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  • Out of Chute Number 18, the Thursday CCB Tour for @WesternWelcomeWeek!

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    Dan Burke

    Out of Chute Number 18, the Thursday CCB Tour for @WesternWelcomeWeek!

    Thursday, August 18 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. That’s right, this rodeo isn’t over yet! If you missed the fun on Monday evening, you still have another shot tomorrow. Nearly 70 of our Littleton neighbors (and some who happened to be visiting from out of town) stopped by the Colorado Center for the Blind to…

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  • Crunchy & Amazing: Farhan Makes Somosas for His Mini-meal!

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    Dan Burke

    Crunchy & Amazing: Farhan Makes Somosas for His Mini-meal!

    Farhan came to the center from Pakistan because he believed that the confidence and self-reliance in our tag line mean greater independence and opportunity for him. Here he is, a little past the mid-point in his training, making really amazing (and crunchy) samosas for 15 guests, and you can feel his new confidence!

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