Part 1
Thanks @TraciC for this post.
There are many people and things to which I am grateful, starting with life itself. Therefore, thanks to LIFE, and to what it teaches us day after day. Living makes us grow, and makes us, or at least I hope, better people.
And then, thanks to @AntonellaGr , she has been sharing this life with me for over twenty years, in good times and in dark ones. We have learned a lot over the years, and much of what we have done would not have been possible if we had not wanted to and done it together.
Thanks to this community, which welcomed me and taught me a lot in these five years together. There are many people I would like to mention in this post, so forgive me if I forget a few.
I want to start with my first Connect Moderator, @FaridTDF , the one who received me and guided my first steps in Connect, then becoming a personal friend.
Together with Farid, of course there is @KarenVChin , the friend and “partner in crime” with whom we share every moment, especially the most difficult ones, She was sitting “virtually” next to me while, in the long night of a year ago I was sitting outside the hospital waiting for a doctor to call me, waiting to hear that dreaded word, that word we have come to know and that can mark the boundary between life and death.
Thanks to this community that in the darkest period of my life kept a window on the world open for me, allowing me, during a long quarantine, to maintain contact with reality.
Thanks to @Cecilita and the whole South American community. In 2019 we became friends, and in the long winter of last year she helped me feel useful. In the dark, she kept a light on for me.
Well, thanks to Google, I want to add, for the opportunities that Google has offered me, and thanks to @Kwiksatik for accompanying me in my first steps in this new adventure called Accessible Life. A year ago she and I both participated in Geo for Good 2020, and in those days we identified the technical details to be able to develop this project. Just tomorrow Accessible Life will be presented at Geo for Good 2021, where I will have a Talk and participate in a Panel (adventures in Accessibility) to talk about Accessible Life. The project was presented, along with three others, during the presentation of Geo for Good 2021, in “What’s new in Earth” highlights.
Accessible Life was developed, in its current form, during the winter of 2019. The friends and moderators of Connect helped me, with their comments, to give it its current form, to correct errors, to improve the graphics. Special thanks to @JanVanHaver , @PaulPavlinovich and @AdrianLunsong .
It seems incredible that a year later, exactly on the same day my mum passed away, Accessible Life will be presented in an “Official” event. Accessible Life was created with her in mind. Thanks Google.
There are still many people I would like to thank, starting with the Italian Community, and first of all @manulele81 , who made me discover how many ways Local Guides can be useful for others.
Thanks to everyone who tagged me in this thread. For space limits (tags) I will answer separately
!
