George was one of those kids.
Illustrated with George Mendoza\'s colorful paintings, accompanied by black and white line drawings by Hayley Morgan-Sanders..
Now a full-time artist, Mendoza\'s collection of paintings, also titled Colors of the Wind, is a National Smithsonian Affiliates traveling exhibit.
He triumphed over his blindness by setting the world record in the mile for Blind runners, and later competing in both the 1980 and 1984 Olympics for the Disabled.
George describes this condition as having kaleidoscope eyes.
George lost his central vision and started seeing things that weren\'t there-eyes floating in the air, extraordinary colors, objects multiplied and reflected back.
It wasn\'t the sudden onset of blindness that many people experience.
George Mendoza started going Blind at age 15 from a degenerative eye disease.
And now he\'s breaking more barriers-because ironically, George Mendoza, Blind painter, paints what he sees.
In fact, he was so fast, he went on to break a world record for Blind runners.
Did that slow George down? Not for a single second.
And then one day, the doctor said he was going blind.
You know, the kind that never stays still.
George was one of those kids
