The Hurricane

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by Quinn Bradlee
Friday, September 03, 2010

The Hurricane

Another LD Analogy: Hurricane Earl is coming and it is going to come right over Long Island, where I am right now. As I saw a little article about it in the New York Post, one of the things that they were talking about were perpetrations for the storm; how people should go to the store and get everything that they need before it comes on Friday, and possible evacuations, because the are categorizing the storm as category 4.  You have to do a lot of things be fore a storm comes and some are smaller and bigger than others; some are weaker and stronger than others.

Sometimes I feel that the inside of a learning disabled mind is not so different than the inside of a hurricane: hurricanes can change direction at any time; totally unexpectedly; and some hurricanes are darker than others; but all hurricanes have eyes just like we do.  People with learning disabilities, especially children, always think that they are in a hurricane but then just for a minute, they will be in the eye, which is the calmest part, but the storm is not over yet.

What's That Word?

Galvanize: l. to apply an electric current to 2. to stimulate as if by electric shock; rouse; stir; spur 3. to plate (metal) with zinc, originally by galvanic action.

Sentence: Doctors will galvanize people sometimes when they are performing heart surgery to try and keep them alive