by Vanessa Potter | Jun 20, 2016 | Blindness
What can I say – it’s all over now, and I have no idea what I will talk about every evening now. Thanks for having me TEDxGhent, it was fun 😉 #BitsofLove #SecondSight
by Vanessa Potter | Jun 16, 2016 | Blindness
Well I can safely say I don’t think I could have practised the talk I will give this Saturday at 11.02 (!) at De Bijloke in Ghent for TEDx anymore than I have. This morning saw my last practise run to around 50 secondary school students with an interest in...
by Vanessa Potter | Apr 15, 2016 | Blindness
Fear does not exist, it doesn’t lurk inside of me. It is a manifestation of my mind, an emotional response my mind creates when certain environmental factors shift a little too far in the wrong direction. Quite often for me, this is simply light; daylight to be...
by Vanessa Potter | Apr 12, 2016 | Blindness
I find I spot oxymorons all the time now. These can be annoyingly common in fact, and I log these small irritations continually throughout my day. Take internet security as a case in point. I’ll come to that in a moment but I’d like to clarify, I am not...
by Vanessa Potter | Jan 13, 2016 | Blindness
Inspiration can manifests itself in strange ways. Occasionally it hits like an excited child running smack bang into me at school pick-up time. Other times it is a slow persistent idea creeping, crowbarring its way into my consciousness when I meditate, dragging me...