* LEARNING FROM THE MENTALLY,
         & PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED!

       Of all of the life changing experiences I have had with 
  with my Master Chair Caning etc. Knowledge is mentoring
  (PRO BONO)  the mentally, & physically challenged, (NOT
  HANDICAPPED) & will do so for the rest of my life!
       When you begin mentoring the mentally, & physically
  challenged little do you comprehend, & realize that you,
  yes you are going to become a very, very special student!
       You are going to be taught life's lessons from a completely
  different book which you have never opened, seen, or read!
       It will be an extremely challenged read full of sur-
  prises which will absolutrly amaze, & spell bound
  you!
       You will experience all of the completely raw un-
  scripted emotions from your very first day at work
  on the J O B!
       And the completely raw, unscripted emotions will run
  from that first greeting with aprehension in their voices with
  a smile on their faces, to a frown, to absolute frustration,
  & more, & a chorus of I cannot do this to complete joy, &
  laughter when they finish running Step #1 on a Hand Caned
  Chair!
       I had a friend named Henry whom was a chronic complainer
  so I thought I would take him along the next time I went to see
  Dick to watch Dick Hand Cane A Chair!
       Dick was completely blind!  At the ripe age of 54 Dick went
  to bed with his complete normal vision, & awoke completely
  100% blind the next morning when he awoke!  I cannot comprehend
  or imagine what my reaction to an event of this magnitude would be!
       On that particular day Dick was doing a Lincoln Rocker which
  had been coverted from Hand Cane to Machine Cane!
       What I (we) witnessed that day I will remember to my dying day!
  It forever changed Henry's disposition as a chronic complainer!
       I had been nudged (more than gently) years ago that they didn't
  want my help, & didn't need my help!
       The tools Dick used to do this particular Machine Cane job I
  had never seen anyone use before doing a Machine Cane job!
  Dick had removed the spline, & now he was getting ready to re-
  install the Machine Cane in the back of that Lincoln Rocker!
       Dick had a hammer, four (4) nails, and a uniquely modified
  yardstick the likes of which I had never seen!
       This was indeed getting very interesting!
       Dick took that creative, notched yardstick, & began measuring
  the back of that Lincoln Rocker horizontally, & then vertically,
  then drove the four nails in their appropriate places, and then he
  hung that machine cane on those four nails, & proceeded to install
  that machine cane into that Lincoln Rocker!  It was absolutely striaght 
  in both directions as well as taunt in both directions as if a sighted
  professional Chair Caner had installed that machine cane job!
       Needless to say, I was left absolutely speechless, & then some!
       And so was my friend Henry!
       Now, back to my friend Henry!  I never, ever heard him complain
  about anything again in my presence!
       To be continued...&