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...
by Vanessa Potter | Jan 6, 2016 | Blindness
I have been acquired. I’m still getting used to the term, and to saying it without sniggering; but I’m getting there. When I look back three years ago, coming home from hospital, a shuffling old lady with wild hair, walking stick and huge owl-like eyes, I...
by Vanessa Potter | Dec 20, 2015 | Blindness
Ask a child what is cleverer – a brain or a computer? and you get a volley of conflicting answers thrown back at you. I can vouch for this personally, as I stood in front of a room full of ten year olds earlier this year and put that exact question to them. I...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 4, 2015 | Blindness
Sometimes we don’t know where we are going, until we get there… I’m convinced someone highly influential has already uttered those prophetic words; if not, then somebody really should have. The very start of this enterprise, this mission, wasn’t anything...
