I hope you are all having a restful long weekend.
The deep dive into Chapter 9 of El Deafo is up. Easily the hardest chapter to write. I’m still kinda ashamed of my bad attitude about sign language when I was a kid…and very ashamed of kicking my sweet mama in the shin! But maybe this video will give some deeper understanding into how I was feeling when I was young.
My attitude about sign language is 100% different now. But I STILL have not learned sign language…no real excuse except time and age and life and everything else. And oh yeah, and I’ve never been a natural at learning new languages. But Tom and I might need to learn some now because lip-reading in a masked world is not looking too pretty. I’ll need an interpreter and I don’t want Tom to have to take off the mask to talk to me!
Here’s hoping I haven’t offended anyone with this particular chapter, or with this video about this chapter. Like I said, a real tough one to write.
I hope you’ll enjoy the video! Here it is…and XOXOXOX to you all.
Cece Bell 
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I hope this link works, unfortunately not everyone has these but if Tom does you might be in luck.
I bet you could make these out of regular masks and a little bit of clear plastic.
Margie
Sent from my iPhone
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