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While camping, I overheard two Kodas talking about their parents. I’ll be doing more Koda Observations, but if you missed my first one, take a look - Koda Observation 1
Riding on the coattails of Coda Conference, I’ve been able to enjoy life daily rather than focus on the future. It allows my mind to connect the dots on my personality, character and being.
Lisa | 
Blogging, Children of Deaf Adults, Deaf, Just for Fun, Koda, My View | 
07 18th, 2008| 
4 Comments »I’m finally owning up to it! IT IS ALL ABOUT ME! At conference I had a breakthrough moment. I’ve been fearful of my ideas and taking them out into the world. I was always wondering what the negatives would be. I was scared of being who I was “CODA” and running with it. This year’s conference helped me to see that I want to be a speaker. “Hearing” people tell me that I have great stories that are also inspiring!
Basically you have to love yourself before you can love others. If I don’t think about my healthy needs and focus on ME - then I can’t focus on others. It’s true, there are studies. You know like when you get on a commercial airplane and they tell you…secure your own mask before assisting others. Same concept!
Photo credit - another fabulous Coda - Sean he also talks about the conference here!
Sometimes I Google myself, and I found this blog post almost 2 years ago from Xanga. Pretty funny now.
You mean it’s not all about me?It started out as a joke. As I was sharing with my friend Janine about it this site, she replied, “Oh, a place where everyone knows it’s all about you”. I paused a bit on the phone, thinking, well isn’t that obvious, if I have a blog, it would be “all about me”. For the last 10 years, that has been a common theme with my friends. They pretty much think, I think, “it’s all about me”. As I reflect, there have been times that I LOVED being the center of attention. I admit, I do love it. But I know there were other times when it wasn’t “just about me”. I was mentally running down a list of good deeds gone unnoticed. I was ready to get really sappy and pathetic by saying…see…see.. I do for others!! So before I could post my very long list. The following situation happened. Late in the day I was approached by Human Resources (gulp). I was informed that my boss was terminated. Being his assistant, I immediately asked, “so will this affect me?” Ummm yea, I guess it is “all about me”. Lisa |
Having just returned home from a fabulous CODA conference held in Indy - I keep learning new things about myself each year. This year, DREAM IT - LIVE IT! Today is my birthday - so if you like to give me a gift - subscribe to my blog! See up in the right side with the counter click on the email - you’ll never miss a vlog/blog! That would be the best gift ever!! My goal is 50 subscribers!
Trying out the new laptop while I make and post this video. Got some bugs to work out, it cut me off in the end, but the jist is I’M EXCITED!!!
The countdown is the toughest part, when others arrive before I do, I hear about it on our groups, FB and IMs. It starts to get me itchy. Can’t wait til Thursday when the road trip begins.
When I go to conference it feels like just a really comfortable setting. To be myself without that extra element of having to explain about my parents being Deaf. Some people really call it home. My parents are still living, but for those that parents have passed, I’ve been told conference gives them that part of them back. Several Codas are not in Deaf-related work fields and this conference allows us to celebrate our heritage along with Deaf heritage. We are a sub-culture of the Deaf community.
I enjoy no explain explain at conference! It allows me to just building friendships based on me, not first let me tell you all about the Deaf world. Oh and yes I like drama, cooking and gardening.
I’m excited to see my family!
Do you know Sean? I really want you to meet him! He is a Coda too. I’m in such a grateful mood these day and must share how Codas can be the most accepting and supportive people in my life, mostly at very unexpected times.
First, I must give you some history. I met Sean at a Coda conference, I don’t quite know which one, but I remember re-connecting with him at the Buffalo Conference in 2003. I was 7 months pregnant so I remember it well. I sat at his table on during the first night’s dinner. He was so wonderful, taking care of me and making sure I had sugar for my coffee. When you are 7 months pregnant it’s the little things that move you. Since that time, he has been a favorite to me. He was the first blogger I knew on Xanga, and I even had an account there. However our paths didn’t really cross much until this year.
Somehow I was asked to participate in the International Coda website committee, headed up by Sean. I said yes right away. In working with Sean on the team we have become closer, he knows so much about tech and online stuff that we clicked. I was very impressed with his willingness to help me in some of the areas of this blog via video. We’ve chatted via Skype and Oovoo having a wonderful time. He turned me on to Twitter - which I’m still trying to understand and utilize.
I had a conference online last month to launch my new ebook - Benefits of ASL with Hearing Children. I tweeted (posted on the Twitter page) about my presentation. During my time, there were several visual malfunctions. I had planned to show my book via my website. So when things didn’t resolve, I just talked about it. I opened the floor up for questions and there was SEAN!!! He got the discussion going on the topic of signing and my eyes were welling up with tears! The support from another Coda that very moment was priceless to me. He knew the benefits and he helped to illustrate it for me. He is also a strong supporter of cultivating sign language interpreters now for future careers due to the shortage.
I want you to meet Sean, not only because he is a kind and generous person, but also because I have invited him to post on my blog. So please post some encouragement for him and check out his blog too. He has some really interesting posts! Like this one in ASL talking about Mac web cams.
And Sean…THANK YOU!
