Stephanie Colpron is the host of Tale Weaver

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lose one of your senses? Or have you even experienced it?
Today I invite you to write a tale from the perspective of someone who has lost the sense of hearing. All they hear now is “the sound of silence” if you will.
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The hearing loss was gradual, not sudden. At first, she found peace when it all went silent. When the high-pitched tinnitus gave way to a peaceful silence, she was at ease.
But this relief was short-lived. She felt that she was excluded from all the family business because she couldn’t hear or understand what they were discussing.
Her friends also took a step back because they felt inadequate and embarrassed, dealing with her. But Carolyn was made of resilient stuff. At the age of 55 she started learning sign language and soon mastered it.
Now though her world was silent, she still could communicate with her loved ones. It dawned on her that if life closed one door, it opened another.
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My new manuscript has a visually impaired woman, who lost her sight in a car accident. This is how I want her to act.
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That’s a challenging job you’ve taken up
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Yes it is, especially since I’m changing it to first person from third person.
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You’re a wonderfully talented writer. I’m enjoying your stories
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Thank you.
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You’re welcome my friend
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A lovely tale of the resiliency of the human spirit. Wonderful, my friend.
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Many thanks my friend! I hope that the message, that we need to keep on trying is clear.
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You’re most welcome! Message is very clear. 🙏
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🙏🙏🙏
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Your last paraghrah is inspiring.
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Thank you so much!
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No need to thanks
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Beautiful tale, Sadje! ✨😉
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Thanks a lot Carol. I took my inspiration from you and others who are living bravely with some hindrance in your way.
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Cool 🙂 thanks for taking your inspiration from me and others 😘
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You’re welcome! I should be thanking you.
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😆❤️❤️❤️
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She didn’t let it keep her down. Her resilience and adaptive skills are admirable.
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Thanks Li. That’s the message I want to give.
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You’re welcome.
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🙏
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A wonderful take on the prompt. I love love the power of taking one apparent weakness and adapting into other strengths. Very inspiring.
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Thank you so much Suzette. ❤️
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A pleasure, my friend.
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💖
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Good story of courage to overcome any obstacle.
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Thanks a lot Patricia
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My mom had one bad ear and everyone in my family talks loud as a result of that.
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Yes, that happens too. They say a person who cannot hear properly also speaks loudly to compensate for this.
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great tale but seldom do the family learn sign language too 😦
My Mum was deaf so we grew up with sign language, the deaf theatre was the best!
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Yes, that’s true. I think sign language is a wonderful asset.
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we only used the basic alphabet on our fingers, Auslan is such a poetic language! I’d love to learn it but don’t have deaf friends to practise with 🙂
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I was watching a kids channel on YouTube and they were teaching alphabet in sign language.
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alphabet is very easy, I used to play scrabble with an elderly deaf, dumb and blind man … imagine his memory to visualise the whole board!
Auslan is much more expressive it’s use of entire body and face, a sort of shorthand … try this to see what I mean
I have a few favourite translators as most events, announcements have Auslan translators 🙂
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That sounds very interesting. I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks
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pleasure!
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Wonderful ❤️
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Thanks Gary.
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So wonderfully positive, Sadje. I have a lot of trouble hearing if there is any background noise, like water running from a tap, for instance. I am always asking people to repeat themselves at such times. I lost a percentage of hearing in one ear due to ear infections as a child. This struck home for me. 🙂
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Thank you so much Carol. I think the price of living longer and aging comes in form of losing some acuity of our senseless memory. We have to take it in our stride.
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It’s something I’ve had to live with from a young age – it doesn’t bother me too much. It may, however, bother others whom I have to ask to repeat themselves. LOL
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I’m sure they understand.
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Most do, sometimes the younger people have issues with it….oh well. 🙂
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We have to do what we can.
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Yes we do 🙂
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😍🤗
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Love this Sadje, a positive spin on a sad situation
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Thanks a lot Deb
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A wonderful take on the prompt! Inspiring!
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Many thanks my dear friend
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Most welcome, Sadje!
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❤️
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thanks 🙏
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I dread the thought of my hearing fading with age. I love music, the sound of laughter, a baby cooing, birds singing… but I think loosing my sight would be worse. Great piece Sadje!
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Thanks Leigha. I pray that we retain all our senses and memory till we are alive.
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