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[John Barresi]

Have you considered making up a small card which explains your deafness, love for kiting, and guides them to great kiting resources?

Or any variation of the above, add info about dual vs quad vs single line, etc, etc.

Might be a great way to bridge the gap.

[Guru4tru]

Kitelife, on 08 April 2011 - 11:34 AM, said:

Have you considered making up a small card which explains your deafness, love for kiting, and guides them to great kiting resources?

Or any variation of the above, add info about dual vs quad vs single line, etc, etc.

Might be a great way to bridge the gap.

Hey John,

That's a "Great Idea"! I certainly want to pass on the "World of Kiting" that I have found. I need something to "bridge the gap", so to speak, about the things I love, so that others would find kiting and love it too, but I can't communicate very well with in person, as you know. I'll take some time to try to work out something, on paper, to express where I'm coming from and my feelings and love for kiting...so that I can set all the people asking questions in the right direction to find the answers they are looking for. When I get something together, with your permission, I'll run it past you in an e-mail to see what you think of it and/or how I might be able to improve it!

Yeah...it would make me feel good to be able to share the joy of kiting with others....I'll work something out! Thanks!!

And slightly off this topic: As you know I've been practicing flying my Revs. like totally alone, the Lone Ranger, for the last year and a half or so, from when I started...but, unknown to me...this last Kitty Hawk Kite Festival was like:::OK...Now You Are On Stage!! and want a BLAST!! I did great...and the Crowd Roared!! heeheehee!! (Yeah...you are use to that, Im sure...heehee! But, for me...What A Blast!! heehee!!

Keep It Up!
Duane

[John Barresi]

Glad to share the idea, and happy to take a look at whatever you come up with - I'll happily offer any suggestions I might have.

Congrats on your experience at Kitty Hawk... It's a great feeling to give so many people such a good buzz, it opens their minds and hearts, makes them look up, if only for a moment.

[Guru4tru]

Really COOL!! (Kitty Hawk Update),

A friend or ours, up in the Florida Panhandle, just sent us a copy of the Northwest Florida Daily News...April 4, 2011...(and I wasn't able to dig it up online), but on the front page...in color...are pictures of the Kitty Hawk Kite Festival under the heading of "FLYING HIGH". And it talks about Professional Kite Flyer Mike Agner (yellow octopus Mike...heehee!) But what is "really cool" is that there, beside his picture, is a big picture of my dear wife, "....Rhonda Beitmen as she photographs some of the kites on display." WOW...She's famous too! (She's the photographer in my videos that, you know...you have to hold your head at 90' to the right to see!! heehee!! She made the headlines!! heehee!

Really COOL!! (Kitty Hawk Update),

A friend or ours, up in the Florida Panhandle, just sent us a copy of the Northwest Florida Daily News...April 4, 2011...(and I wasn't able to dig it up online), but on the front page...in color...are pictures of the Kitty Hawk Kite Festival under the heading of "FLYING HIGH". And it talks about Professional Kite Flyer Mike Agner (yellow octopus Mike...heehee!) But what is "really cool" is that there, beside his picture, is a big picture of my dear wife, "....Rhonda Beitmen as she photographs some of the kites on display." WOW...She's famous too! (She's the photographer in my videos that, you know...you have to hold your head at 90' to the right to see!! heehee!! She made the headlines!! heehee!

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I...we...love this kiting!

Keep It Up!
Duane

[stroke survivor]

Duane: That's awesome to find yourself at the center of attention and not trying to be that!! I'm sure you'll come up with something to express your feelings on flying!!