[Menvi-discuss] Someone wrote a short memoir about me!

Sun Jul 24 12:20:01 EDT 2011

If I were you I'd send it to TVI lists and mobility instructor lists...
Then they might consider you to maybe be like a special guest at their 
event... (I'd also put a video of you playing this trumpet solo too :D.

Brandon Keith Biggs

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From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 9:11 AM
To: "This is for discussing music and braille literacy" 
<menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Someone wrote a short memoir about me!

> Yeh he wants it to go viral just let me send you the corrected copy he
> sent me offlist to you ok don't post it yet thanks.
>
> On 7/24/11, Sonja Biggs <sbiggs at vistacenter.org> wrote:
>> Chela, I would love to post your story on my personal website. May I? It 
>> is
>> written so well and the tears were flowing as I could relate to every 
>> word,
>> emotion, and thought felt by your instructor. I have had students who 
>> have
>> touched me in a similar way.
>>
>> Sonja Biggs, MA, TVI, COMS
>> Vista Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired
>> 2470 El Camino Real, Suite 107
>> Palo Alto, CA  94306
>> 650-833-9766
>>
>> "Dream the impossible dream...then live it!" --Brandon Keith Biggs, Age 
>> 19,
>> Blind Performer, LCA-CRB1
>>
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>> From: menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org [menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of Chela Robles [cdrobles693 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:19 AM
>> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
>> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Someone wrote a short memoir about me!
>>
>> My facebook friend Doug Sprei is going to post that story with the
>> gramatical errors corrected by me, to Learning Ally's Blog see my
>> instructor way back when wants it to go viral, then once someone
>> actually meets me, and asks me to play that song if requested to do
>> so, he wants to be the first to know.
>>
>> On 7/23/11, Bill <billlist1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> It was not until tonight that I was able to take the time to read this
>>> memoir.  It was well worth the time.
>>> This is a beautiful story which is beautifully written.
>>>
>>> Turns out that I too love that song, "I Can't Get Started with You", 
>>> and
>>> have performed it with a local bigband here a number of times.  But 
>>> that's
>>> a
>>> different closing verse than I sang.  I took my lyrics from a record of
>>> Bunny Berrigan singing and playing the song.  I think the final verse 
>>> was
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> I've been consulted by Franklin D.
>>> Greta Garbo has had me to tea.
>>> Still, I'm broken-hearted,
>>> 'Cause I can't get started with you.
>>>
>>> But mainly this wonderful story made me aware of how blessed I have been
>>> by
>>> teachers like this author.  They gave me gifts at a time when I did not
>>> even
>>> know I was being gifted.  They did their work because they loved me and
>>> loved doing their work.  What a precious thing it is to read about 
>>> someone
>>> who did the work and lived to savor the fruit of his labors.  To quote
>>> another lyric from one of my other favorite trumpet players: "What a
>>> wonderful world!"
>>>
>>> You go, Chela!
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org
>>> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Chela Robles
>>> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:57 PM
>>> To: undisclosed-recipients:
>>> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Someone wrote a short memoir about me!
>>>
>>> Here is something someone wrote about me it is awesome and we keep in
>>> touch!
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> --
>> "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
>> forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be 
>> sophisticated,
>> but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
>> then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie 
>> in
>> the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality 
>> of
>> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
>> --
>> Chela Robles
>> E-Mail/GoogleTalk/AIM/Twitter/MySpace/LinkedIn: cdrobles693 at gmail.com
>> WindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693 at hotmail.com
>> E-Buddy ID: cdrobles693
>> Skype Name: jazzytrumpet
>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chela.robles
>> I volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to learn more
>> and to join us, visit: http://www.bookshare.org
>> Visit my blog piece from Learning Ally and after reading and listening to
>> the song selection, fill out the form which requires no CAPCHAS unless
>> you're a robot at:
>> http://www.learningally.org/Blog/Access-and-Achievement/144/vobId__2525/
>> Cell: 19252505955
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> -- 
> --
> "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
> forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be 
> sophisticated,
> but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
> then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
> the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality 
> of
> the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
> --
> Chela Robles
> E-Mail/GoogleTalk/AIM/Twitter/MySpace/LinkedIn: cdrobles693 at gmail.com
> WindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693 at hotmail.com
> E-Buddy ID: cdrobles693
> Skype Name: jazzytrumpet
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chela.robles
> I volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to learn more
> and to join us, visit: http://www.bookshare.org
> Visit my blog piece from Learning Ally and after reading and listening to
> the song selection, fill out the form which requires no CAPCHAS unless
> you're a robot at:
> http://www.learningally.org/Blog/Access-and-Achievement/144/vobId__2525/
> Cell: 19252505955
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