A Green World of Nature in Pastel

                          A Green World of Nature in Pastel  

Pastel Drawings of Sor Veny V Rotor, ofs

“Away, away, from men and towns,

To the wild wood and the downs, —

To the silent wilderness,

Where the soul need not repress its music.”

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

A basketful of oranges

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

 - Saint Mother Teresa

Flow gently under the bridge

“Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together.” – Frederick Lenz

Green turtles 

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - John Lubbock ~

Dusk or Dawn?

  Dusk or Dawn?

Dr Abe V Rotor

Dusk or Dawn? in acrylic on wood (8.5"x 14") AVR 2019

Darkness conquers light,

or the other way around;

dusk or dawn delight

    makes the world go round
in colors dull and bright
sans bound and sound. ~ 

But there's no neighbor!

But there's no neighbor!

Dr Abe V Rotor

What is missing in this painting?

"Let's draw a house. Each his own."

The children drew and drew: 

posts, walls, stair window, door;

cheek on palm, eyelids moving; 

garden, swimming pool, patio;

twirling a pencil, added: 

trees, mountain, cloud, sun. 

"Here!" They showed their own houses.

"There's something missing."

Back to the drawing board, pondered:

birds in the sky and in trees singing.

"Here," they showed again their houses.

"There's still something missing.

Would you like to live in your houses?"

Silence. 

Fingers moved, lips tightened:

more lines, shades, colors, now with flowers.

"Here," they showed once more their houses.

"But there's still one thing missing."

Silence.

A little girl in a corner drew and drew:

a house nearby, people around.

She showed her house.

The children chorused: Neighbor! ~

*LESSON on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio 738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday

Sail Boats Forever

                                                   Sail Boats Forever 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Sailboats in acrylic, AVR c. 2004

What a crude game, you may say, 

Of my ancestors’ sailboats catching 

The breeze, docking the gusts, 

Edging the rocks, sans compass 

Or sextant, map and telescope.

What prize is at stake? Not a trophy. 

Yet the instinct craves for a prize 

Like in The Old Man and the Sea; 

A prize he found, mindless of people. 

Who saw nothing of his adventure.

Let the sailboats play in the wind

And water, let alone an old boat 

At rest, sitting on rock like an old man,

Standing guard over the young, who too, 

Shall someday play the same old game. ~

Hide-and-seek game

 Hide-and-seek game

                         Dr Abe V Rotor 

                                  

Oscar, a four-year old aquarium pet at home. QC 

Everyday it is our casual game, 

with Oscar, my pet and friend;

until one day I saw the reeds

cold as iron bars, and I, a fiend.~

We Live in a Time of Hope and Change - A Response

We Live in a Time of Hope and Change
- A Response*

Dr Abercio V Rotor

We realize and accept the big challenge that these awards expect us to carry on as we prepare to face the closing of this century, which marks the grandest milestone of our history, and, on the other hand, anticipates the promise of the next millennium. 

Conversion of St Paul on Damascus Road, painting by the author at the former SPUQC Museum (8ft x 8ft)

 Experience tells us of the dichotomy of the future as we walk the road the road of change characterized by danger and opportunity, uncertainty and optimism.  However, we tend to believe that the future is bright, and often the prophet in us sees it as a superhighway, sans the predicaments of Nostradamus, the man who saw tomorrow.

 At our feet lies a shrunken planet which we exaggeratedly call a Global Village.  Definitely our sense of dimension and time is wrong.  It is as if we are interpreting literally William Blake’s philosophical masterpiece, Auguries of Innocence, to wit:

        “To see a world in a grain of sand

      And a heaven a wild flower.

  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

      And eternity in an hour.”

Breakthroughs in technology, pyramidal corporate structures, make a genie of a capitalistic society to which the world lies subservient. Paradoxically, through the present Information Revolution, the tentacles of such order have unwittingly clamped down reason in the Homo sapiens now being shaped into a singular mass where richness in diversity begins to dissolve and become polarized in the belief that modernization will lead us to the Good Life.

Is this the reason why The Hunchback of Notre Dame lost its socio-political theme in a recent Disney comedy musicale?  Was it because of money, because the New Order lacks conscience, because tradition is passé?  Whatever happened to Markham’s philosophy on Millet’s struggle, in Juan Luna’s Spolarium?

My fellow awardee and I believe that the Good Life that our fast changing world promises us is more than power.  Still, we must rely on man’s most powerful tool that is well tested in the long process of evolution and in the quest for advancement, and that is the power of the human mind, its imagination and its reason. 

While there is need to explore the world around us , there is equally a need to reflect into ourselves and onto God.

If truth is to be found in inventions and formulas, we must not forget that the foundation of truth is in the Great Book.

A clear mind about the issues of the world will merely lie obscure without a stout heart that accompanies it, and which is willing to deal with its imperfections.

Peace, that inner peace in every righteous person, in order to exist truly, must be an instrument of reconciliation to settle conflicts and erase tensions, and to teach us to live harmoniously with our fellowmen. Only then can true understanding beget justice, compassion.  This is a true gain of mankind, but like any other genuine gain, it cannot be attained without pain.  This is reality’s finest moment, a common dream come true.  That is why we are measured by our fidelity to our dream, however distant that dream is and impossible as it may seem.

Yes, periodicity – when we came and where we are, through an incidence of time and space – is not devoid of a purpose, a purpose that is part of a grand design of the great Creator, the purpose of life itself, the greatest gift of man from God.  And as a gift it must grow, grow into a mountain it must, before it is shared.

In sharing that dream, we indulge in vision, hope and prayer which bring us closer to God.  We are not only the dominant organism on earth, we are the likeness of our Creator.  If there is one that likeness must fit best, it is the Paulinian.  Our vision of her is “a perfect woman, nobly planned,” and bright with something of an angel light that shines, but she, too, takes pride in reaching out to the less fortunate.  She sits on a swivel chair, walks on the unbeaten path.  She shines in competition, to illuminate the vision that the youth is human life’s instrument of perfection.  

These awards are a perfect symbol of the immortal relationship between the old and the young.  They help bring generations together for common visions and

The old may have earned the natural right to preach to the young, but the young see more clearly the errors of the past and are more willing to rectify them. 

As we walk on the road of change to the year 2000 and beyond, and, perchance find ourselves at a crossroad where we hesitate to proceed, let us look back, and there we will find a lamp shining through the portals of our institution – a light that once upon a dark night on a lonely road to Damascus, a stranger found his way to the hearts of men and into the kingdom of Christ. ~

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Response, Golden Jubilee Awardee 1999
St. Paul University QC

Where has the fisherboy gone?

                                  Where has the fisherboy gone? 

Dr Abe V Rotor

By the stream under a tree (wall mural detail) in acrylic by the author

By a stream on a rock ledge many a dream grew with the water flowing, the clouds rising, the breeze whispering in a nearby tree, its shade creating images of art and fantasy.

Hours lazily passed, but how short was a day fishing, from sunrise to noon and back again when the fish would return, the bamboo pole suddenly becoming heavy with a big catch.   

Other boys join the cheer, the louder the bigger the fish was, or fading with a whimper when it got away, and it was always "the big fish that got away," an adage of every fisher folk.

Away from town, away from school, away from home for a while - this freedom in innocence and adventure, the elders would call laziness, stubbornness and aimlessness in growing up.

Boys don't know the difference grownups want them to be, but wait for their own time, when childhood yields to the demands of the world, the world though big is "prison" to grownups. 

They too, were children before - the "man in the boy" comes later when there are no more big fish to catch, the tree has overgrown the rock ledge and other boys are longer around. 

Like birds migrating and returning, season after season in Vivaldi's refrain, and Mozart's lament, life goes on in rhythm, but time couldn't wait, while dreams sought for reality. 

There are many fish in the world, the biggest to catch always a dream - fame, ideas, wealth, sacrifice, honor, popularity - aiming at these to the end, in triumph, surrender or defeat. 

Years later a man in gray hair appeared, he saw a familiar boy fishing, his thoughts seemed far away, his fishing pole bending to his excitement, then snapped - it was the big fish that got away. ~

The Redwoods - World's Tallest Trees

In observance of the International DAY OF THE FOREST (March 21)

and EARTH Day (April 22)

Redwoods - World's Tallest Trees

Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor

Three species of trees are referred to as redwoods.  The most common  are the California's redwood, the giant sequoia trees, and on the other side of the globe, China's dawn redwood or known as “water-fir” or “water pine”.  

Redwoods are remnants of vast ancient coniferous forests during the time of the dinosaurs (Mesozoic era) millions of years ago. They survived the asteroid impact which annihilated the giant reptiles and other organisms on earth, the ice ages, the third and last believed to have occurred some 10,000 years ago when man was in its final phase of evolution. Redwoods are therefore, considered living fossils, a number of them are more than 3000 years old. 

 

 

"The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe." - John Steinbeck

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

— Shakespeare (Troilus and Cressida)

 

  

"There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself." - John Muir,  A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

 

 

"It's always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." 

— John Muir

 Wilderness World of John Muir*

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." — Our National Parks

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike." — The Yosemite

"The battle for conservation must go on endlessly. It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong." — Son of the Wilderness

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

— My First Summer in the Sierra

"Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." — Son of the Wilderness

John Muir, a renowned naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club, is celebrated for his profound wisdom and eloquent reflections on nature. His words have inspired generations to appreciate and protect the natural world. Here is a collection of some of his most memorable quotes, offering a glimpse into his philosophy and love for the wilderness.   Acknowledgement with Gratitude, from Internet 

The Last Sentinel

The Last Sentinel

"Once upon a time there was a Paradise

abandoned by man in search for glory."

Dr Abe V Rotor

Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), stands virtually alone on Tagaytay Ridge. 

Photo taken by the author on March 24, 2013 

I braved the wind and storm, drought and rain,

     vandals and lovers carving their pledge, 

the beetle and caterpillar, all that has to gain

     from me standing on this ridge at its edge.

I was as proud as a king, tallest among my kin,

     home of countless tenants and refugees;

by height and place I was keen at touching the sky,

     though so little I felt on Babel's knees.

The view around was lush and green, verdant 

     in the sun as mist and fog would unfold;

a woodland was my world, I was once a part,

     until humans came to replace the old.

My neighbors are gone, I lost track of my lineage, 

     I've no one to talk to, though humans can 

in queer sound far from the gentleness of breeze

     all day long and after the sun is down. 

I lost sight overlooking the famed volcano, 

     its lake within a lake shining in the sun;

my vantage is blocked by roofs and walls and smog,

     an orphan I became by progress of man. 

I no longer hear plaintive and joyful songs,

     recitation of verses under my wing; 

weary travelers no longer stop to take a nap,

     nor birds nest in my branches and sing.

I live in fear for the woodsman, the engineer,

     but I've lived with fear enough to understand

the world of man: fear akin to his existence

     hidden in want - guideless, boundless in band. 

Man's era shall reign over nature, but for how long?

     I can only tell from my ancestors' story:

once upon a time there was a Paradise 

     abandoned by man in search for glory. ~ 

Painting is Forever

 Painting is Forever 

Living with Nature Center 

San Vicente Ilocos Sur

Painting is forever, there's no time and space limit.  Art evolves, it rolls on and on, traces history and beats a path to the future, exempts no one - young, old and those yet to be born." - avr  

 

Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

Art is leisure, mural detail of a cavern.

Take a break, relaxation a luxury today,

Sleep a most precious rest, give way.

Shift your thoughts to dreams and fantasy.

Live life your best, give thanks, and pray.    

 

Bring Nature home in the sala and on canvas.

Nature comes into your home through art,

     on painted floor, ceiling and wall,

in three-in-one piece, or in views apart,

    with aura to admire and enthrall.

Landscape your empty wall and corridor.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, 

what is the fairest of all,

but trees, hills and a waterfall,

away from the ugly troll.

  

Memories of childhood scenes enshrined through painting.

Paintings of sweet memories forever,

my childhood I'll never forget, never!

 

 

 

Painting sets the stage for drama, rehearsal and actual performance,

in the purview of performing art under the subject of Humanities. 

Make a stage your own and tap your talent,

overcome stage fright, conquer fear;

as you go through practice and experiment;  

discover, stir your way wide and clear,

 for stars are born, by providence or accident;

acting a great hobby, a lifetime career.

 

Painting is work and game, hobby and career.  As spatial art, it provides

 a beautiful setting in the interplay of reality and fantasy, rationality 

and creativity. 

Painting is forever, there's no time and space limit. Art evolves, it rolls on and on, traces history and beats a path to the future, exempts no one - young, old and those yet to be born." - avr ~

Famous Blind People (Article in Progress)

 Famous Blind People

Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor

Helen Keller - (1880 - 1968) (1880-1968) American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf/blind person to graduate from college.

 Helen Keller

Horatio Nelson – (1758-1805) British admiral

When enemy ships would display the signal flags Horatio would bring his telescope to his blind eye and say carry on with the attack, I see no signals.

Andrea Bocelli –(1958 - ) Andrea Bocelli had become blind at the age of 12 years old, famous singer. He once said "I don't think a singer decides to sing, it is the others who choose that you sing by their reactions". Bocelli is also a lawyer. 

John Milton – (1608-1674) English poet and prose polemicist, well known through his epic poem Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.

Claude Monet (1840-1926), founder of French impressionist painting, a movement that swept through Europe in the later part of the 19^th century. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. PHOTO

                                            

Galileo Galilei - (1564- 642) Galileo Galilei was a Tuscan (Italian) astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher being greatly responsible for the scientific revolution.

                                                                                           

 Franklin Delano Roosevelt - (1882-1945) Franklin was the 32nd President of the United States of America.  In spite of several disabilities including vision impairment, he was responsible in the recovery of the economy from the Great Depression.

 Stevie Wonder - (1950 -  ) American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from infancy.

 Alec Templeton - (1909-1963) was a satirist and pianist who had moved from Wales to the United States where he played with several orchestras, eventually making it to his first radio performances on the Rudy Vallee Show, The Chase and Sanbourn Hour,The Magic Key and Kraft Music Hall. The way he would memorize his scripts before the show was by asking someone to read them 20 times in a row while he would listen. He was blind from birth but it did not stop him to doing what he wanted to do in the end.

 Louis Braille - (1809-1852) Louis Braille became blind after he accidentally stabbed himself in the eye with his father's awl. He later became an inventor and designed braille writing, which enables blind people to read through feeling a series of organized bumps representing letters. This concept was beneficial to all blind people from around the world and is commonly used even today.

 Harriet Tubman - (1820-1913), a slave throughout her youth, being treated as an animal until she eventually escaped captivity. When she had reached Canada she did not stay to enjoy her freedom. She returned to the lands and brought hundreds of black slaves back to safety, saving them from slavery by escaping from what they then called The Underground Railroad. After a severe wound to the head, which was inflicted by a slave owner before her escape, she became victim to vision impairment and seizures. Which did not keep her from tossing her fears aside and to keep fighting for the freedom of her people.

James Thurber - Comedian and cartoonist for New Yorker Magazine. His brother William accidentally shot him in the eye with and arrow while playing a game of William Tell making him almost completely blind after the loss of an eye. 

Jorge Luis Borges - (1899-1986) Argentine writer whose output includes short stories, essays, poetry, literary criticism, and translations.

Joseph Plateau PHOTO - (1801-1883) Belgian physicist, invented the stroboscope that led to the development of cinema, blinded by gazing at the sun for 25 seconds.

 Marla Runyan - (1969 - ) Marathon runner who is legally blind. She is a three-time US national champion in the women's 5,000 meters.

Thomas Gore - (1870-1949) Democratic politician. He became blind as a child through two separate accidents but did not give up his dream of becoming a senator.

William Prescott - (1726-1795) American colonel in the Revolutionary War, became widely attributed for the famous quote, "Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes," an important instruction to his soldiers in order to conserve ammunition. The former town of Prescott, Massachusetts, and the Prescott Peninsula today were named in his honor,

Ray Charles - (September 23, 1930 � June 10, 2004) known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an American pianist and musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem. In 1965, Charles was arrested for possession of heroin, a drug to which he had been addicted for nearly 20 years. It was his third arrest for the offence, but he avoided jail time after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles. He spent a year on parole in 1966.

Sidney Bradford - (May 30, 1906 - August 2, 1960) went blind at 10 months of age but regained sight on both eyes after a cornea transplant at the age of 52. He was the subject of many scientific studies of perception by neuropsychologist Richard Gregory. His operation was able to reveal idiosyncrasies of the human visual system.

Arnolt Schlick - Arnolt was a German organist and composer of the Renaissance.

Esref Armagan - (born 1953) Esref is a blind painter of Turkish origin.

Frederick Delius - (January 29, 1862 � June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England.

John Sanley - (January 17, 1712 � May 19, 1786) John Stanley was an English composer and organist. 

Kelvin Tan Weilian - born 5 October 1981) Kelvin Tan Weilian is a visually impaired professional singer in Singapore.  

Thomas Rhodes Armitage - (1824-1890) Armitage was a British physician, founder of the Royal National Institute of the Blind.

Joseph Pulitzer - (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911) Joseph was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes (along with William Randolph Hearst) and for originating yellow journalism. In 1882 Pulitzer purchased the New York World, a newspaper that had been losing $40,000 a year, for $346,000 from Jay Gould. Pulitzer shifted its focus to human-interest stories, scandal, and sensationalism. At the age of 42 Joseph became blind due to retinal detachment leaving him no choice but to retire.

Judy Heumann - (born 1947)  is an American disability rights activist.

Leonhard Euler - (born  April 15, 1707) Leonhard was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus and graph theory.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - (August 7, 1936 - December 5, 1977) Rahsaan was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, playing tenor saxophone, flute and other reed instruments.
                                                                                               
Tilly Aston - (December 11, 1873 � 1 November 1947) better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind, with herself as secretary.

Doc Watson - (born March 3, 1923) Doc Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music.

Francesco Landini - (around 1325 � September 2, 1397) Francesco Landini was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker.

Sue Townsend - (born April 2, 1946)  is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. Her writing tends to combine comedy with social commentary, though she has written purely dramatic works as well. .

Bernard Morin - (born 1931) Bernard Morin is a French mathematician, especially a topologist.

• French singer, musician, pianist and organist 1915 - 2001)
• Audre Lorde - Poet - Activist (1934 - 1992)
• Blind Lemon Jefferson - (1893 - 1929) - Blues musician & singer
• Eamon de Valera - (1882 - 1975) - President of Ireland.
• Eduard Degas - French painter
• Ella Fitzgerald - (1917 - 1996) - jazz singer - went blind as a result of diabetes in her old age.
• Francisco Goya - (1746 - 1828) - painter, became blind and deaf in late life - painted blind(ed) subjects.
• Frankie Armstrong - English folk singer and voice teacher - sight degraded in late teens onwards from glaucoma
• Frida Kahlo - Artist (1907 - 1954)
• George Shearing - (1919 - ) - jazz pianist.
• Gilbert Montagn - French singer, musician, pianist and organist
• Ginny Owens - Gospel singer - totally blind from age 2
• Harilyn Rousso - Disability Rights Activist/Psychotherapist (1946-)
• Henry Fawcett - UK Postmaster General - 19th Century
• Homer - Greek poet said to have been blind.
• Honor Daumier - (1808 - 1879) - French caricaturist - painter - and sculptor - blind later in life.
• Isaac the Blind - (1160 - 1235) - French cabbalist (possibly blind from birth)
• Isaac - biblical patriarch
• James Joyce - (1882 - 1941) - writer - at times blind - underwent several operations
• Jessica Callahan - singer - blind from retinopathy of prematurity
• Jhamak Ghimire - Nepalese Poet and Writer (1980)
• Joaquin Rodrigo - composer - from an illness at age three
• Johann Sebastian Bach - (1685 - 1750) - became blind in later life.
• John II of Aragon - (1397 - 1479) - able to see again after cataract surgery (couching) by Abiathar Crescas
• John Wesley Powell - Explorer - Geologist (1834 - 1902)
• Jose Feliciano - (born 1945) - blind from birth due to congenital glaucoma
• Joshua Reynolds - (1723 -1792) - British painter - blind later in life.
• Judi Chamberlin - Mental Patients' Liberation Activist (1944-)
• King John the Blind of Bohemia - (1309 - 1346)
• Mike May - (born 1954) - regained partial vision due to stem cell research.
• Ronnie Milsap
• Rt Hon David Blunkett - MP - politician
• Samson - Biblical character - blinded by the Philistines
• St. Paul - Apostle (photo)
• Stalebread Lacombe - Jazz musician - went blind in middle age
• Surdas - a Hindu poet - saint and musician of India
• Tim Cordes - a blind American physician who earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2005, and is the second blind person ever to be accepted to an American school of medicine.
• Tom Wiggins (1849 -1908) - a virtuosic pianist, gifted composer, and one of the most in-demand musicians of his time in America in the late 19th century. Born in 1849 into slavery in Columbus, Georgia, he was blind and autistic. People quickly discovered that he had an unusual gift for music from an early age.
• W.C. Handy - (1873 -1958) - Blues composer - went blind in middle age
• Wilma Mankiller - Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1945-)
• Zohar Sharon - blind pro golfer

Famous people with sight problems. Summary: Famous people, some real, some imaginary, who have lost their sight.

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This is a list of famous people, both real and imaginary, who have lost their sight. The people on this list have been included because they are well-known in their own right rather than because they are, or were, blind or partially sighted.

The portrayal of some blind characters in literature or the arts is very negative. Blind characters are often seen as frightening or pathetic, or as being punished for some moral lapse.

It is important to realize that sight loss is a natural phenomenon which can affect anyone, irrespective of moral behavior or religious belief. While it may cause very real problems it does not turn ordinary people into monsters or victims.

• Thomas Rhodes Armitage - founder of RNIB
• Rt Hon David Blunkett MP - politician
• Andrea Bocelli - opera singer
• Louis Braille - inventor of braille
• Ray Charles - American singer and composer
• Cupid/Eros - Greek/Roman god of love
• Eduard Degas - French painter
• Henry Fawcett - UK Postmaster General, 19th Century
• Mikey Hughes - Big Brother 2008 contestant
• Homer - Greek poet
• Horus - Egyptian god
• Helen Keller - American author and philanthropist
• Denise Leigh - opera singer and winner of Channel 4's Operatunity
• John Milton - English poet
• Claude Monet - French painter
• Dr William Moon - inventor of Moon system of reading
• Horatio Nelson - British admiral
• Odin - Norse god
• Oedipus - mythological Greek King
• Samson - Biblical hero
• St. Paul - Apostle
• Tiresias - mythological, Greek seer

Lesson on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio, 738 DZRB AM, [www.pbs.gov.ph] 8-9 evening class Monday to Friday