Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Handwriting:- My Nemesis
Everyone loves getting an unexpected card don’t they? My kryptonite is being able to read the message inside. I love the boldly printed Moon Pig cards my daughter sends me- the font is very plain and because it is bold (thicker than normal print) and a large I can decipher it with my own eyes……
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What a Facebook memory
4th May 2018 19 months after learning my sight loss diagnosis; 10 months after my white cane training; 6 months after moving across town to my new flat… I got fed up waiting for a sighted person to walk with me and wrote on Facebook:- “And this is the thing I could do today. On…
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Voting day
Here in the UK we have local votes going on today. We are choosing town councillors which pays for verge/hedge maintenance around town, refuse/ recycling collection, social housing, etc (it is county councillors who hold the purse strings for the budget that pays for road, police, school, social care (adult and child), etc locally (basically…
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Would I choose a bear?
There’s been an interesting tweet on Twitter where some bloke asked women would they prefer to be stranded in the woods with some random man they don’t know or a bear… Almost all women that answered the question said the bear. The bloke who asked the question and several others have been saying that that’s…
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Be a joyful helper
Twitter (and other social media) can be heaven or hell. It’s not fun when a chain brand puts up a tweet like this screenshot as my screenreader cannot read it sensibly This is how it sounds using voiceover. https://youtu.be/MSZr6Exl-QM?si=ldSfECP2FJ76He6L In a tweet like this sighted people automatically and subconsciously ignore the squares and squish the…
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A muddy early spring walk
As I’ve got older, and my eyesight has deteriorated you’d think that there was less for me to enjoy. Yesterday’s walk is a good example to share (16th February 2024). All photo collages described in the text beneath them. Flowers Left is a large photo I took by laying my iPhone under the snowdrops and…
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Perspective
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? I’ve mentioned in other blogposts how losing most of my sight and becoming diagnosed medically blind a few weeks before my 55th birthday was a piffling nuisance rather than a tragedy due to other experiences I’d had… After all when…
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Valentine’s Day
In June this year it will be 40 years since I married a kind, gentle man who turned abusive immediately after our honeymoon. 2 days after my wedding anniversary will be my 37th divorce anniversary. I don’t do romance as I didn’t want to have another relationship while raising my children and now I don’t…
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What does hard core look like?
*trigger warning domestic violence, still birth mentioned* I recently read this fantastic blogpost by Smelly Socks and Garden Peas https://smellysocksandgardenpeas.com/2024/02/10/i-am-hard-core/ Her question at the end reminded me of my blogpost from last year. https://wasthatadinosaur.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/mental-health-awareness-week/ But what does “hard core” look like? If you think it looks cool, calm, and collected at all times but especially…
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