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Living Large
Published on 2012-02-14 04:00:11
As she talked, I reflected on how gifted people are like this. We were created to live large. We possess all these overexcitabilities, intensity, energy, enthusiasm, humor, creativity, and charisma. We were born to command attention when we enter a room! Image via Wikipedia Yet how many of us do? For whatever reasons, many of us have made ourselves small, trying to cram ourselves into society’s prescribed box. Or if we just can’t help drawing attention with our entrances, we try to deflect
Tutorial: Binocular Vision
Published on 2012-02-08 04:00:02
Binocular vision is one of the hallmarks of the human race that has bestowed on it the supremacy in the hierarchy of the animal kingdom. It is an asset with normal alignment of the two eyes, but becomes a liability when the alignment is lost. Binocular Single Vision may be defined as the state of simultaneous vision, which is achieved by the coordinated use of both eyes, so that separate and slightly dissimilar images arising in each eye are appreciated as a single image by the process
If Thy Eye Offends Thee, Pluck It Out
Published on 2012-02-04 04:00:06
“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. " -- Matthew 5:29-30 Apologies to the right eye, as it is innocent, I think. But, it's my left eye that should be plucked out so that my whole body isn't cast into hell. However, I am on a tear and may just want to pluck out both eyes for good measure. I'm so annoyed with the
