[stylist] Quote to ponder - taken to another level-spelling isfirst, recognition of a pattern

[Anita Ogletree]

I am able to do that sometimes.  I sometimes miss it.  Anita

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net
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>Date sent: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 19:04:53 -0500
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level-spelling	isfirst, recognition of a pattern

>I too hear the smile in people's voices.  I also hear the fear, 
suppressed
>anger, and lots of things.  Sometimes, I think that's one thing 
that makes it
>uncomfortable to sighted people -- that we pick up stuff they are 
trying to
>hide.
>Donna

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Robert Leslie
>Newman
>Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 6:07 PM
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-spelling
>isfirst, recognition of a pattern

>Donna & others
>3 things

>#1 On the bottom of my email to you all --- I shared the young 
woman's
>testimony and a part of a sentence did get attached that wasn't 
supposed to
>be there --- Sorry, good catch and question!

>#2 Visualization by the congenitally blind? Yes, sure in their 
own unique
>way.  Dreaming at night is one good example: We who see or have 
seen will
>have night dreams that are visual in nature; our unconscious 
essentially
>reflects what we experience when conscious.  I once had 20-20, up 
to age 15.
>So I at age 64 will still see in my dreams.  And so the blind 
will have
>dreams based upon what they experience during the day --- if they 
see some,
>then that will influence their dreams --- if the person has never 
had any
>visual input, then their dreams are made up of - you guessed it, 
the sensory
>input that they receive during their waking hours.  (Here is an 
interesting
>fact, one that for some ignorant reason that I had originally not 
thought of
>--- was that even the congenitally blind can and will fly in 
their dreams!
>Not sure why I was surprised by this news when on another list we 
had this
>discussion.)

>#3 Echolocation is the more accepted term for "facial vision," or
>blind-radar.  And yeah, every human being uses it to some degree.  
It is just
>that we the blind, out of necessity and, I guess opportunity, 
will learn to
>really perfect it.  I use it all the time, everyday! I remember 
the first
>time that after going blind that I recognized it was possible.  
(I was
>walking around our backyard, this was like within a few weeks or 
so after
>the car accident --- I felt-heard a cloths-line pole right off my 
shoulder.
>Boy, in my independent travel, me and my cane, I am super slowed 
down if I
>lose the metal tip off the end of my cane.  I mean, hey --- the 
cane is only
>five foot four in length, and at arm's length I can only reach 
out seven or
>so feet (with the angle factored in) --- where with my metal tip, 
the sound
>cues I send out all around me, I can pick up on parked cars 20-30 
feet
>before I get to them, or a building that is across the street, or 
I can
>follow a wall of a building and keep a steady distance from it 
and then can
>pick up on a recess doorway.  And much, much more.

>Another cute thought is - in regards to picking up on a smile, 
isn't it one
>of the more pleasant sounds, hearing the smile in a voice!? 
Recently, a
>friend was playing a trick on me, I was to meet her in a 
classroom, and when
>I entered she remained quiet, trying to trick me into thinking 
the room was
>empty.  Well, her undoing was that she smiled and I heard the 
super slight
>smack/tick of her lips parting!)

>(Fun Talk!!!)






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