wildsweetone
i am what i am
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New Zealand Deaf Awareness week has kicked off with a great start.
Loud music leading to silent future - if you're planning on buying mp3 players or ipods or anything that uses headphones inside your children's ears, then chances are your children will have them turned up so loud, they'll be guaranteed permanent hearing loss in their future. and they sure won't be comfortable with the never-ending scream of tinnitus.
these little machines have a high volume control that is beyond the safety zone for hearing. Britain is so far about the only country i know that has introduced a maximum volume level standard.
with Christmas coming, i thought it a good idea to mention this to you. please mention it to others, and to your children.
one NZ company last week advertised hearing aids in bright colours, especially built for younger people.
take care of your hearing, and help your children take care of theirs too.
My cell (last edited 26/1/06)
by wildsweetone
Come into my cell,
make yourself at home.
The walls are high,
windows round and
the sky - my ceiling.
Parrots sit in beech trees,
humming birds hover
near jasmine. Lavender,
bluebells, daffodils
and roses nod agreement
on a breezy summer’s day.
A lone forget-me-not sits
under a tree, a wild seedling blown
from the nearby field, established,
flourished and growing.
It watches me
as I gaze.
Bright yellow bees suckle
sweet honey from clover
and a monarch butterfly bounces
happily in a wide arc
landing for restful moments on leaf,
after leaf,
after leaf.
A cumulus cloud expands -
giant steps upward to another world;
a fantasy of noisy waterfalls
a cacophony of chaos.
Stay here in my cell of light and shadows,
of colour and crumb,
of creation
my silent world.
Loud music leading to silent future - if you're planning on buying mp3 players or ipods or anything that uses headphones inside your children's ears, then chances are your children will have them turned up so loud, they'll be guaranteed permanent hearing loss in their future. and they sure won't be comfortable with the never-ending scream of tinnitus.
these little machines have a high volume control that is beyond the safety zone for hearing. Britain is so far about the only country i know that has introduced a maximum volume level standard.
with Christmas coming, i thought it a good idea to mention this to you. please mention it to others, and to your children.
one NZ company last week advertised hearing aids in bright colours, especially built for younger people.
take care of your hearing, and help your children take care of theirs too.
My cell (last edited 26/1/06)
by wildsweetone
Come into my cell,
make yourself at home.
The walls are high,
windows round and
the sky - my ceiling.
Parrots sit in beech trees,
humming birds hover
near jasmine. Lavender,
bluebells, daffodils
and roses nod agreement
on a breezy summer’s day.
A lone forget-me-not sits
under a tree, a wild seedling blown
from the nearby field, established,
flourished and growing.
It watches me
as I gaze.
Bright yellow bees suckle
sweet honey from clover
and a monarch butterfly bounces
happily in a wide arc
landing for restful moments on leaf,
after leaf,
after leaf.
A cumulus cloud expands -
giant steps upward to another world;
a fantasy of noisy waterfalls
a cacophony of chaos.
Stay here in my cell of light and shadows,
of colour and crumb,
of creation
my silent world.
