"If" and "When" -- a Poem of Eulogy and Celebration
Channel: Capri-Omni
Date: 2012-10-20

This poem was written for the  "Disability Blog Carnival" for October, 2012, hosted by Dave Hingsburger at "Rolling Around in My Head": http://davehingsburger.blogspot.com/ 

My full entry for that carnival (With further stories of the hospital psychologist and letter-writing incidents) is here: http://capriuni.dreamwidth.org/663290.html
Photo at 1:08 by "Atomichumbucker;" source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Humanitiesdoor.jpg Cropped and altered by myself.

The image at 3:46 represents a button (badge) I picked up at a local demonstration in support of Section 504; featuring the ASL sign for "Equal / Fair."  Unfortunately, I could not find the button itself in time to make this video.

For more information on "the rallies of '77" and Section 504 (of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973) see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_504