building on my abilities
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
“Building on Abilities”
My amazing journey
- Brad Magnus
![Page 2: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
“We have a new baby! His name is Brad”
![Page 3: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Preschool
![Page 4: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Peek! I see you!
![Page 5: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
“Hi, Dad!”
![Page 6: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
1981
Salt Spring Island
Growing up on the farm
![Page 7: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
My favorite activity
![Page 8: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
We trust each other
![Page 9: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
A snack of blackberries with Duncan
![Page 10: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Chores on our farm
![Page 11: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
My favoritehorse, Magic
![Page 12: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Developing communication and relationships with my horse
![Page 13: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
I love riding motorcycles
![Page 14: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Lessons in driving
![Page 15: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Centering clay on the wheel
![Page 16: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
My paintings at an art show
![Page 17: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Dancing with renown instructor Barbara Mettler- Tucson Arizona
![Page 18: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Barbara Mettler’s studio
![Page 19: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
1993
![Page 20: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
My friend Tim Hunter from the Calgary Flames
![Page 21: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Commonwealth Games– Closing Ceremony with Anne Mortifee
![Page 22: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Dancing with Michelle Wright - Opening of Special Olympic World Games
- Toronto 1997
![Page 23: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Working with Jacque Lemay - Director of the Pacific Ballet Company
- toronto
![Page 24: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Performing with Michelle at
Cowichan Theatre
- Duncan, BC
![Page 25: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Cyprus 1998
International Conference –“Quality of Life”
![Page 26: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
The Mediterranean
![Page 27: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Students from the University of Cyprus
![Page 28: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
The Princess of Morocco invited me to meet her son.
![Page 29: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Sight-seeing: narrow streets in an old city
![Page 30: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
![Page 31: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Dad by the cork tree
![Page 32: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
![Page 33: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Performing in Cafe Royal- London England
![Page 34: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Japan 2002 & 2005
“Advocating Abroad”
![Page 35: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Our first trip to Japan. International Conference: “Quality of Life”
![Page 36: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
The Magnus family presents to families
![Page 37: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Time to eat!!!
![Page 38: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
The Canadian Embassy - Tokyo
![Page 39: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
![Page 40: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Blossoms
![Page 41: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
My new friend likes the deer
![Page 42: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Traditional Japanese music in the park
![Page 43: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Whiskers!
![Page 44: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
A special dinner
![Page 45: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Learning the tea ceremony
![Page 46: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Expo
Aichi, Japan
2005
![Page 47: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Welcome quilt display
![Page 48: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
“A Family Love Story”
translated into Japanese
![Page 49: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
Fabulous floor at Expo
![Page 50: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
Dad speaks
![Page 51: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
Friends and family in amphitheatre after presentation
![Page 52: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/52.jpg)
We visit a sheltered workshop
![Page 53: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/53.jpg)
Meisi University;
A presentation with Roy Brown
![Page 54: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/54.jpg)
Dancing at Meisi University
![Page 55: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/55.jpg)
An evening walk in Tokyo
![Page 56: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/56.jpg)
Lunch Japanese style
![Page 57: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/57.jpg)
Promise – “Friends for life”
![Page 58: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/58.jpg)
Dr. Iinuma’s clinic for children with Down syndrome and their families
![Page 59: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/59.jpg)
Dancing with Tokyo’s Prima Donna Ballerina
![Page 60: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/60.jpg)
... And her students
![Page 61: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/61.jpg)
We visit love the children
![Page 62: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/62.jpg)
At the temple
![Page 63: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/63.jpg)
We arrive home: Salt Spring Island
![Page 64: Building on my abilities](https://reader034.vdocuments.mx/reader034/viewer/2022051112/55a39ae01a28ab69548b462c/html5/thumbnails/64.jpg)
Advocating at home