Bats are big in October, whether it be those varnished pieces of wood meant to connect with baseballs or those slightly spooky creatures associated with Halloween.
In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, bats hovered in Hogwarts’s Great Hall during Halloween as an evil professor let a troll into the castle; as Harry and his friends attended a ghost’s deathday party; as someone framed for a murder disguised as a dog tried to murder the framer disguised as a rat; and…..
With around five minutes to play in a recent Monday night National Football League game between the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons, the Giants scored a touchdown, cutting the Falcons’ lead in half. Assuming that the Giants successfully kicked the extra point, the expected move in similar situations.
But the Giants chose to try a two-point conversion, a riskier option. This decision startled both the Westwood One radio announcers broadcasting the game and me. But my guide dog, christened…..
Corners are quirky.
Rectangular or rounded. Narrow or sweeping. Sharp or gradual.
I hear a wide variety of reactions from sighted people when my guide dog and I barrel around corners at a four mile-per-hour clip. Surprised gasps. Nervous laughter. Shrieks. Breathless apologies, followed by “I didn’t see you.”
And the occasional “Oh shit!”
These reactions take place because light-dependent people often find it hard to see around corners.
Life presents us with unexpected corners of all shapes and sizes……
My remarks to my fellow senators if I were a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
“My fellow senators:
“We have gone astray.
“Everyone has turned to their own tribe.
“We all understand this, but spend our time playing the victim. “It’s the other tribe’s fault!” we piously proclaim, while charging our opponents with lying when they do the same.
“Surely we know better.
“We are highly educated, wealthy, well-connected elites who pretend that only those who disagree with us…..