Washington National Cathedral

 

California Major State Day

Sunday, May 20, 2007
Photography by Lisa Helfert


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Ms. Tari Livingston-Hughs

Photo 4: Ms. Tari Livingston-Hughes of Winnetka, a member of the Welsh choir, also read Scripture. Livingston-Hughes, a high school English teacher in Grenada Hills who is blind, translated the reading from the Acts of the Apostles into Braille for delivery at the service. Livingston-Hughes said as she transcribed a recording of the reading into Braille, she could picture how it would sound in the cavernous Cathedral. “While I was listening back and seeing what I had written matched what I was hearing, I was hearing the praises sounding in my mind so I had an idea how it would sound in a cathedral space,” she said. “So when I got up to read I can’t say I was surprised. I expected the sounds I was hearing, and then all my work during the time I was reading was to give respect and dignity to the Word of God and let the Word tell the story itself.”