Comments on: How blind can a man be? http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/how-blind-can-a-man-be-2/ A musing on New Zealand, Kiwiana and it's re discovery from far out in space. Sat, 19 May 2012 14:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: KiwiVagabond http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/how-blind-can-a-man-be-2/#comment-144 KiwiVagabond Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:03:08 +0000 http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/how-blind-can-a-man-be-2/#comment-144 Hey Monte I could not agree more about blind people and sensitivity. There is a fav Helen Keller quote about people who can see but have no vision. I do try to listen I really do, and I think I am a good listener usually, depending on how much coffee I have drunk. I am also a fairly observant kinda guy, more than most I would think, but in only seeing some things, not everything. Everything needs to be challenged lovingly and gently in yourself. I am so over beating myself up as I have done for the last 52 years. The danger that the post relates to is mainly me thinking I see or hear what I hear with perfect clarity. When that goes unchecked, I can get things wrong. While growth can be embarrassing and requiring endurance as you say, mild kinds of growth which touch on things that are in your own power to change leave me feeling like I have had a good workout. Tis a delicious kinda warm exercised muscle stretchy feeling. NOT all growth is like that unfortunately. I appreciate your visit and thoughts Monte. Hey Monte
I could not agree more about blind people and sensitivity.
There is a fav Helen Keller quote about people who can see but have no vision.
I do try to listen I really do, and I think I am a good listener usually, depending on how much coffee I have drunk.
I am also a fairly observant kinda guy, more than most I would think, but in only seeing some things, not everything.
Everything needs to be challenged lovingly and gently in yourself.
I am so over beating myself up as I have done for the last 52 years.

The danger that the post relates to is mainly me thinking I see or hear what I hear with perfect clarity. When that goes unchecked, I can get things wrong.
While growth can be embarrassing and requiring endurance as you say, mild kinds of growth which touch on things that are in your own power to change leave me feeling like I have had a good workout. Tis a delicious kinda warm exercised muscle stretchy feeling. NOT all growth is like that unfortunately.
I appreciate your visit and thoughts Monte.

]]> By: Monte Stevens http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/how-blind-can-a-man-be-2/#comment-143 Monte Stevens Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:32:08 +0000 http://kiwivagabond.com/wordpress/how-blind-can-a-man-be-2/#comment-143 I think I see what your saying or maybe I'm hearing it. :-) Anyway, I can relate to what you are saying. Growth can be hard to endure but we must grow. Stagnation kills all that is around it. When I truly listen I find I hear more. Too often I have started talking within my head in response to only the first of what they have said. I went through an exercise where I was paired with another person. We sat in chairs facing each other. We were asked to give an answer to a question but only allowed 3 minutes time to share. One person was to share and the other was to listen. The listener could not repeat, nod, acknowledge until the 3 minutes were up. I felt the listening to be the easier of the two. The sharing for 3 minutes seemed like an eternity. In response to blindness. Some of the most sensitive and creative people in the world are blind or partially blind. Some have even received better vision over time. Wow, did I ramble. I'll be quiet now. I think I see what your saying or maybe I’m hearing it. :-)

Anyway, I can relate to what you are saying. Growth can be hard to endure but we must grow. Stagnation kills all that is around it. When I truly listen I find I hear more. Too often I have started talking within my head in response to only the first of what they have said. I went through an exercise where I was paired with another person. We sat in chairs facing each other. We were asked to give an answer to a question but only allowed 3 minutes time to share. One person was to share and the other was to listen. The listener could not repeat, nod, acknowledge until the 3 minutes were up. I felt the listening to be the easier of the two. The sharing for 3 minutes seemed like an eternity.

In response to blindness. Some of the most sensitive and creative people in the world are blind or partially blind. Some have even received better vision over time.

Wow, did I ramble. I’ll be quiet now.

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