Literature

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.They must be felt with the heart.”~ Helen Keller 1880-1948 Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.Here are Karsh’s moving words about this session which resonate even more so today,“On first looking into her blind but seeing eyes, I said to myself of this woman who had no sight or hearing since the age of three “Her light comes from within”.She placed her marvelously sensitive fingers on my face when we met.This was for me, an emotional experience. I sensed she already knew me.Her faithful companion, Polly Thompson, dialed Braille into her palm. Helen Keller’s kindness and understanding, her alert mind, awed me. I told her this was not the first time we had met or I know her through her writing. Amongst the earliest articles I attempted to read while learning English was her “How to appreciate the Beauty of Sunset”. “Now having met you in person” I said “I will no longer think of you in terms of sunset but of sunrise”.She quickly replied, “How I wish that mankind would take the sunrise for their slogan and leave the shadows of sunset behind them”.