The Fonzie Times

Island Dolphin Care Newsletter September 2007 Edition (click to return to newsletter)

www.islanddolphincare.org

Resources

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Equipment

Sure Hands: Lift and Care Systems.

Sure Hands Lift Systems can be found in use in the Island Dolphin Care Facility!! Sure Hands offers a wide array of lift systems that can be installed in homes and facilities. For more information please visit www.surehands.com

Technology

Mayer-Johnson
Boardmaker & Speaking Dynamically Pro:

Create printed symbol-based communication and educational materials with Picture Communication Symbols and other pictures and graphics in 42 languages! Island Dolphin Care has utilized Boardmaker for picture communication cards. We were just introduced to "Speaking Dynamically Pro" which is an interactive communication program and can be utilized on a variety of assistive technology devices.

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A family recently shared this poem:
"This poem is for noah and all the little ones like our sons that leave footprints in our hearts"

Neptune Blue
 (dedicated to Island Dolphin Care)
written by John Vincent and Tricia Dennis
I met a boy
an inevitable man
that will stand before me
and one day shake my hand and say,
"Hello, my name is Noah...."
this I know to be true
because truth
is born and lives in the eyes
and his sing to me
sweet melodies of purity
messages of hope
intertwined in a song
called  Neptune Blue
speechless words swell
in the azure orbs
of this bright young soldier
and laughter is his weapon of choice
his voice to help teach those
he touches
he laughs with a surprising prank
as you become the joke
of underestimation  
he has yet to walk, or skip, or dance,
or dive
but this special lad can fly
in ways we cannot dare
as he has no cares for the silly things
that surround us
in our beginning world
for he is a leader
of all the bodies
of water around him
unable to drown
a conductor of the current moment
and the theme to a dolphin symphony
known as Neptune Blue

resounding images wave
within the deep royal droplets
of Noah's subliminal stare
and silence is his vehicle to us
his bus to deliver the souls
he transforms like the dolphin
and directs away from paths that lead to fear
 as you become a passenger
of the spirit
 he has yet to run, or jump, or swing,
or drive
but one day he will surely swim
in an ocean all his own
as his story will live far beyond
the pull of this planet
that holds him down
yet he is a miracle
for all the world to see
unable to hate
a provider of ultimate purpose
and the reason for this poem
called Neptune Blue....

 

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