tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786903316479288118.post4934259583480697564..comments2023-11-04T03:27:50.982-07:00Comments on Brian Keeter's Recovery: Sprung for Valentine's DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786903316479288118.post-2599168836132665262009-02-17T12:39:00.000-08:002009-02-17T12:39:00.000-08:00Earlier today I sent the following in an email to ...Earlier today I sent the following in an email to the Webbs (Kara and her husband Brian, who is my nephew). Kara wrote back saying she thought others who are following this story of her brother's recovery might be interested in the story I wrote. So here it is:<BR/><BR/>Dear Kara and Brian,<BR/><BR/>I just read the Brian update. Kara, you are a marvelous writer/reporter! I was interested that you are getting inspiration from Joni Tada. I was with her about 20 years ago. There are a bunch of coincidences: six degrees of separation kind of thing between the Keeters and Joni. John and Elizabeth Sanden, with whom you had coffee when you visited me in NYC, put on a large conference about painting about 20 years ago, and invited me to give a talk about the history of painting. The event was in a hotel in Chicago. It had a Christian thread woven through, and one of the keynote speakers was Dr. Bryant Kirkland, Pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (where the Sandens and I were members), whom the Sandens also brought to Chicago for the event. The other keynoter was Joni Tada, who learned to paint with her teeth after she became a quadriplegic.<BR/><BR/>Although I met Joni, I did not have an opportunity to talk with her for very long. What I remember is how absolutely helpless she was from the neck down, yet she overcame that to participate fully in the complex task of speaking to a large audience. She was strong, interesting and inspiring. That was a long time ago, yet based on her website that I just looked at, she continues at full pace. What an inspiration! Her strength is, of course, in the Lord - as is all of ours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786903316479288118.post-44625105624607607322009-02-16T19:20:00.000-08:002009-02-16T19:20:00.000-08:00good for you kara thanks for the updategood for you kara <BR/><BR/>thanks for the updatejamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729184654091923390noreply@blogger.com