Rich Thompson: You can borrow my eyes anytime dear!

Welcome to the Disability Diaries with Stephen Vine.

I am your host and I am in my humble abode today interviewing a man that is a very special guest today and I'd like to welcome him with open arms.

And Rich, welcome to the Disability Diaries with Stephen Vine and could you please introduce yourself to the audience?

Sure, I'd be happy to.

I'm happy to be here.

My name is Rich Thompson.

Have you had a lot of coffee, Reg?

Define a lot.

16 cups.

Less than that, but probably more than adequate.

Okay,

so now that we know you've got a lot of caffeine in you, are you comfortable here in my house? Oh, very much so, yes.

It's all good? Got enough leg room over there?

Oh, I'm good, thank you.

Good, good.

Okay, so your quote.

Oh.

Do you have one at all? I do, yeah.

Oh,

you did bring one.

Excellent.

Good idea.

Let's do that.

So a quote that grabbed me when I came across it was from Walt Whitman.

It says, keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.

And I liked it because it just, I think, talks about perspective on life.

You know, there's always different ways of looking at things.

Yes, there are, aren't there? You know, not just for in the context of people with disabilities, but for everybody, right? You can...

You can always look at things in a positive light or you can always look at things in a negative light.

You can always find something to complain about.