How It Feels To Be Homeless At 51

This morning, I went shopping to a nearby supermarket. While I was getting the bags out of the car trunk, I heard a voice behind me. It was a man with white hair and beard, looking at me as if he was about to ask for directions. He was smiling, I smiled back and...

Can We See With Our Fingertips?

Wouldn’t you think that a person born blind cannot see shapes and colors the way we see them? I thought so, until I was sent this video, which I’m going to show you here: it is a documentary about a Turkish painter, Esref Armagan, who was born without...

How Do You Sphinn Today?

Some years ago, there was an international project meant to ease communication across different countries of the world. It was called Esperanto, and it was supposed to be a language with words taken from many languages, in order to create a new language intelligible...