A Meaningful LIfe

10/4/2024 0 Comments

A Light in the Darkness

As we walked into Mouth to Hand today we were told by Anne that Judy was at Town Hall notarizing building plans for a new space downstairs, and would be back shortly. I felt a moment of pure joy; a surge of almost overwhelming happiness.

All spellers ache for acceptance and friends…and amiable spaces where our disability doesn’t matter for awhile, because we are just Vince or Alex or Ben or Kyle while we are there. And for a few hours, we are normal people having fun and laughing and learning and creating and smiling. So a sacred space dedicated to us lets all of us become as happy as we can be.

All spellers live in darkness until they can speak. All see some light when they spell their first words. All see the sun for the first time when they walk into M2H.

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9/20/2024 0 Comments

The Most Wonderful Place on Earth

I am the biggest supporter and fan of Judy and Mouth to Hand on the planet. I am determined to get my parents to move to New York (I live in Pennsylvania), so that I can come here every day. I travel a lot to do my advocacy work so I’ve met many people in the spelling community - and there’s no one like her and no place like this. I am using my name, which is well-known in our world of spelling, to let everyone know that Mouth to Hand is the greatest place on earth.

I love coming here so much that I barely sleep the night before, I’m so excited. My father uses the word giddy, and I agree. What is it about this place that makes it so special? If I had to sum it up in one word, I’d say it’s love. You can feel it as soon as you step through the door. Judy particularly loves us, and she doesn’t care that we are disabled. You cannot imagine how wonderful that feels to us.

So I love to come, to bathe in that feeling…and I count the days until I come again. Mouth to Hand is the greatest, and if you can bring your nonspeaker here, do. You won’t regret it.