’We must be willing to relinquish the life we've planned,
so as to have the
life that is waiting for us.’
Joseph Campbell
Have you noticed the
moment you try to take a detour around something, you end up going
places you never dreamed of? Sometimes it brings you to wonderful
experiences where the unexpected is your reward.
What happened here
recently was that I
tried to gently nudge my readers away from this Gateway to follow a
trail of inspired new posts on my website.
Intrepid blog
followers are welcome to hear my FIRST story transformed into an
audio narrative, Many
Different Hats - link below
But I learned that
readers were still enjoying the many posts here
when I received an invitation from the Lighthouse Foundation for the
Blind (California).
One of their staff
had visited the Gateway and wanted to share the news of their recent
announcement about an amazing new series of prizes aimed at changing
perceptions about what blind people are capable of doing in their
community.
If, like me, you can
answer their first question, ‘What would you do with $25,000 to
make your most ambitious dream a reality’ (Sorry, sighted people
need not apply), and if you can put together a 90-second video
application, then you might be interested to see how this initiative
by the Lighthouse is supporting blind adventurers worldwide
in pursuing their most ambitious projects yet.
LightHouse Announces the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition
One of the first
blind entrepreneurs who circumnavigated the globe in 1832 was an
Englishman called James Holman. Widely known as ‘the blind
traveller’, Holman’s adventures earned him great respect for
successfully undertaking a series of solo journeys across the globe –
totally blind!
In honour of his
accomplishment, the Lighthouse are offering the Holman Prize to
celebrate innovative people who want to shape their own future by
sparking ambitious dreams of their own.
“LightHouse’s
initial 2017 prizes will provide financial backing for as many as
three individuals to explore the world and push their limits through
travel, connections, construction and communication.”
Does this sound like
you?
Head over to the
Lighthouse Foundation before 28 February 2017 to enter the first
round of applications (via the creation of a YouTube video).
May the spirit of
adventure continue to capture your heart and don’t forget to dream
big, always! From audio to ambitious dreams, anything is possible in
2017.
LINKS:
BOOK: A Sense of the
World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler
by Jason Roberts
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2017 Maribel Steel
Photography ©
Copyright 2017 Harry Williamson
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