BS: The King of Lemonade

Subject: RE: BS: The King of Lemonade
From: bflat
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 10:52 AM

Amos, thanks for the link. Oh to be like him when adversity strikes. Very inspiring story. I'd like to own one of his pieces as a reminder, not to mention beauty and usefulness.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: The King of Lemonade
From: MMario
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 08:52 AM

Subject: The King of Lemonade
From: Amos
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 12:13 AM

Some folks get real depressed when they get a cold. Others just get terribly frustrated when they miss a raise. But consider this gentleman, a Vietnam veteran who stands out in high degree:

Bill Wedekind makes beautiful pottery. Well, it may be beautiful he really doesn't know, because he can't see it. Not only is this pottery maker blind; perhaps more importantly, he has no hands.

After losing both his sight and his hands serving his nation in Vietnam, Wedekind had to decide "whether to crawl off in a corner and feel sorry for myself and die, or get up and make the best out of what you've got Left."

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/11/11/blind.potter/index.html