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While It’s Today by Vicki Wray
While it’s today
I will see the sun shine
I’ll walk where the roses bloom
Making them mine
I’ll walk through the grass
While it’s wet with the dew
And feel the fresh breeze
When the morning is new
While it’s today
I will hear the birds sing
And take time to notice
Each beautiful thing
My hand will reach out
To the hand of a friend
And my heart will send out
All the love it can send
While it’s today
I will treasure each hour
Opening up like a blossoming flower
And when shadows cover
The crest of the hill
I’ll let love surround me
And shelter me still
Respect by Phillip Charles Hamon III
Everybody needs to be respected in everyday life. Even people with disabilities like to be treated like a person. In the People First meetings, all of the members should respect on another by not arguing and fighting with one another. We need to try the other person'’ ideas, not just your own idea. Don’t make fun of or ignore someone else’s idea because you don’t like it. Listen and respect their ideas and they will listen and respect yours. People with developmental disabilities must try to respect each other because we need to work together to keep full rights in the world and work together to make it a better place for us to live.What I Like About People First of Denver
By Sam Ormsby
These are the things I like about being a member of People First of Denver:
I like that people are interested in what I think and what I would like to do
I like that they accept responsibility to work together to help make good things happen
I like that I saw others raise their hand to show they would like to serve on a committee and I raise my hand too!The Unseen Playmate
From Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Submitted by Joan Neibaur
When children are playing alone on the green,
In comes the playmate that never was seen.
When children are happy and lonely and good,
The Friend of the Children comes out of the wood.
Nobody hear him, and nobody saw,
His is a picture you never could draw,
But he’s sure to be present, abroad or at home,
When children are happy and playing alone.
He lies in the laurels, he runs on the grass,
He sings when you tinkle the musical glass;
Whene’er you are happy and cannot tell why,
The Friend of the Children is sure to be by!
He loves to be little, he hates to be big,
‘T is he that inhabits the caves that you dig;
‘Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin
That sides with the Frenchmen and never can win.
‘T is he, when at night you go off to your bed,
Bids you go to sleep and not trouble your head;
For wherever they’re lying, in cupboard or shelf,
Appropriate Language
contributed by Michele Manning
Say people with disabilities, instead of handicapped or the disabled.
Say people with developmental disabilities, instead of the mentally retarded or retarded
Say has a congenital disability instead of birth defect
Say he uses a wheelchair instead of confined to a wheelchair.
Say visual disability instead of sightless or blind
Say physical disability instead of crippled or lame
Say short or stature instead of dwarf or midget
Say is nonverbal instead of mute or dumb
Say a person who has instead of afflicted with, suffer from, or victim of
Say mental disability, instead of emotionally disturbed, crazy or insane
Say a person without a disability instead of normal or healthy
Say accessible parking instead of handicapped parking