Anecdotally, a friend went fully blind at 36 in the mid-80s from eye drops tampered with lye. It sucked in ways I could never have imagined. Her whole world fell apart.

However, her learning to navigate the world and getting visually oriented descriptions from others was easier because she had a preexisting frame of reference. We’ve had this discussion numerous times and she was always thankful she had sight for as long as she did.

So if you write a bunch of words with the Latin alphabet and stack them vertically as a sentence, is that a closer representation of East Asian writing?

Not just cosmetic, I believe it’s used to treat migraines and possibly other issues. Crazy stuff.

Bluegrass dobro playing.

Read a book on Libby (library app).

Any particular type of beans? Red? Black? Lentils?

Does the type of rice matter?

I’m intrigued by this possibility.

Troll 2

There’s even a documentary about how bad it is.

I have no idea what I just watched, but I would date her.

First day in the dorms at college I see a name tag next to a door that says “Shithead” and thought what a mean joke to play! Turns out her name was shi-thee-ad. Rest of the year she was Thea.

Also worked with a woman named “Noname” (no-nam-ay) and apparently that gave her all sorts of trouble on official forms.