Borghild dahl biography of albert
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Borghild dahl biography of albert
“Give Thanks for Everything,” Friend, Jan. 2010, 2–3
Many years ago I was touched by the story of Borghild Dahl. She was born in 1890 and from her early years suffered severely impaired vision. Against the advice of educators, who felt her handicap was too great, she attended college.
She eventually became the principal of eight schools.
She wrote the following in one of the 17 books she authored: “I had only one eye, and it was so covered with dense scars that I had to do all my seeing through one small opening in the left of the eye.
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I could see a book only by holding it up close to my face and by straining my one eye as hard as I could to the left.”
When she was over 50 years old a procedure finally restored much of the sight she had been without for so long.
A new and exciting world opened up before her. She took great pleasure in small things, such as watching a bird in flight, noticing the light reflected in the bubbles of her dishwater, or observing the phases of the moo