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    Acadia Choral Society Makes Beautiful Music With Juilliard Faculty

    Bysmartin December 31, 2013August 10, 2014

    The faculty of the brass section of the Juilliard School of Music arrived in Bar Harbor and we got to work. It was December of 2001. During rehearsals we discovered that these guys are talented, yes, but they were also regular people. We all made mistakes in the beginning and there was a lot of…

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    Independence, Hiking With My Dogs

    Bysmartin July 4, 2012February 4, 2025

    I love hiking, I always have. I divide my hiking experiences into three groups; Hiking when I could see, Hiking when I couldn’t see but before I had a Seeing Eye Dog, and hiking now that I do have a dog. The third group of experiences are, by far, the richest and most rewarding.  …

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    Feelings of mastery

    Bysmartin June 2, 2012February 21, 2026

    Flash back to 1992. That’s the part of my life that I’m writing about now. Here is a part of Chapter 35, entitled, Winter on the Coast. At the time we were living on the coast of Maine. This is an excerpt in which I describe one of our cross country skiing experiences. *Begin excerpt*…

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  • Home
  • Sue’s Blog: A Life Worth Living
  • A Tribute to The Seeing Eye
    • The Harnessing of Love
    • Beverly, The Firecracker in Harness
    • The Different Faces of Retirement
    • Quoddy in Retirement
    • Beverly Crosses the Rainbow Bridge
    • Kismet, Beloved, Impish, Brilliant
    • Kismet Crosses the Rainbow Bridge
    • My “Quandary”
    • A Journey of Change, Patience, and Love
  • Learning to Live with Blindness
    • An Unfinished Book
    • Three-letter Words
    • braille “Flash Cards”
    • The Touch of Reality
    • It’s Cane-Cuttin’ Time
    • What Do an X-ray and a Signature Have in Common?
    • On the Move, Moving On
    • Does It Get Any Easier?
    • Hands On
    • The Drop-Off Lesson
  • Contact Sue