poem i found in my pile of paper collection in our garage

Words, words everywhere

but not a word is heard . . .

Again and again I pleaded

but not a word is heeded . . .

Words, words everywhere

but not a word is learnt

Again and again I asked . . .

to satisfy our hunger

to let subtitles flow . . .

filling our minds aglow

a picturesque school

of life galore . . .

copyright . . . Patreena Bryan 1998

http://nzcaptions.wordpress.com/

Dear Mr Tony O'Brien



I read above link and i am exhausted to read all the efforts - data and facts. what for?



I am Deaf.



Why all this?



I feel the same as so many thousands of Deaf people - Deaf children and students - hearing-impaired by accidents, age and diseases - children with learning disabilities and autistic children - foreigners learning to read english - people who chose to turn sound off to let others sleep. Maybe those with noisy machines would benefit watching tv with words too. Tv sets could be left on in the shop window using captions?



Frustrated. Annoyed. Very very tired of this endless lobbying that need not happen at all.



Why?



We pay taxes - GST - worked and saved for our home car and stuff.



Why didnt we get respect and dignity to be able to follow programmes - to learn (education) - to enjoy (pleasure) - to participate (to live).



It is our "Human Rights" being denied to us - not listening to us - not thinking we are capable of reading and to understand a word?. We are as educated as you are.



Why deny us the right to use the "ramp" to all tv programmes.



Why ask us what we wanted?



Would you turn the tv on without sound?



I am very very disappointed - we fought for our right to have subtitles back in 1970's ( the word first used) for 25 plus? years. Yes unbelivably cheeky of tvnz not recognising our needs. we have been explained to - "passed the buck" so many many times - trying to fool us . . . in trying to get those rightful precious words. We have told you so many times why we need those words - subtitles and captions. Are you deaf to our pleas??????



OMG. . . $88.1 million PROFIT AFTER TAX last year!!!! Need i say more?



I am so sad... i am seventy-one years old - when will i ever see our Deaf people stop lobbying? They do not need to but for your ignorance - excuses - blatant cheek not bothering to recognise our vital visual need.



I pray that your tv sound system will one day fail to make you hear?



thanks for listening to an irate and sad old lady.



patreena bryan

wednesday 14th 2010

My first post.

Beautiful sunny day - blue skies everywhere - warm in sun but cold in the shade.

I placed my 18 year old chook into her sunny sheltered corner before i go and show Owen my son those two huge broken branches - they had fallen onto other branches.

Owen climbed up and shook them free - bit difficult as one was stuck but he managed ok.

While Owen went to look at our double garage - i feed my 24 plumply feathered hens and cleaned coop. Putting dirty chooks' papers into the garden fire heap to be lit later. Dumped kitchen waste into compost and covered with chooks manure.

Owen took off in a hurry after opening letter from his bank... person's cheque has bounced who was supposed to pay him for gibstopping work.

After my cuppa coffee i took Sam my foxterrier/papallion cross dog for a walk thru the empty paddock next door and on to Oaia road and back.

After lunch i cut those broken branches into pieces to be burnt. Tom my hubby helped me to carry and propped large pieces inside the chooks run. I raked leaves up from the lawn and dumped them into compost which now full.

Took pics of patio area where we had removed that leaning ivy tower - it was put there to cover that dome thingy to the sewer tank there. i covered it casually with a huge shell.

Picked lovely huge camellia flowers and placed them into narrow 'cylinder' glass vase. Gotta take paics of that - no one would believe how big they are!

Now let me see how this looks here in my blog...