Scenes from childhood.

[Aged P]

Hi D akey,

If I can raise the $3000 by Friday. i can have a rejuvenated eye by Monday evening! Then two weeks later for another $3000 I can get the other one done. Then about another $300 for new glasses. Until then you get word pictures. :lol:


Phil

[D Akey]

That so? Wow.

Is that enough time to make sure the first one is working?

I briefly worked in a place were I gave rudimentary eye exams to see if people were able to drive. So I saw lots of miracles, since many were coming in having had various procedures done.

The most dramatic for me was an artist who had been declared legally blind. He had an out patient procedure and had perfect vision.

Some people were even making one eye for close up and the other for distance.

Some eye doctor had discovered that the brain generally focuses out of one eye at a time. I assume that the brain looks through the eye that has the sharpest vision for that distance.

Who knows. For me, I'm nauseous just thinking about that. But it seemed to work.

It's an age of medical miracles we're living in.

I wish you the very best speedy recovery so we can get you painting again.

[Aged P]

Hi D,

The second one could be delayed but we wanted a firm date so that we can arrange transport, and various other things, to fit in round my daughter's job. Plus , keeping clear of reduced Christmas medical coverage if I have problems. Two weeks is probably the minimum gap, the gap is to avoid a possible double infection.

Monet got his cataracts done in about 1913 and repainted a lot of stuff, so I'm hoping to follow his example.

That thing about using the best eye available ties in with a piece I read about using the best nostril available, we're amazing machines!

Phil

[creationsings]

Well, this isn't exactly a scene from childhood...but more like a childhood memory. I remember one of my mom's favorite things to draw when she was just goofing off was this little cartoon dog. As a child I thought it was the neatest thing...with just a few lines and circles, a dog would appear. (When she's doodling he still sometimes appears even to this day.)

So I've taken my mom's line drawing and spruced him up a bit.

[Selby]

Hi CS, cute little pup...you obviouslt had a creative mum...and you sparked memories for me of some of the funny carachters my mum used to draw while waiting on the phone...ill have to ask her if she still does them


Selby

[Netdevil]

He! It reminds me of Hong Kong Phooey

[Martha Weatherall]

I spent summers in Conway, Arkansas with my maternal grandparents on a wonderful farm. Swinging, and dreaming were my happiest moments.

[Martha Weatherall]

This was my attempt to move the tree based on the scriptural verse about having the faith of a mustard seed allows one to move mountains. Indeed, the tree did not move-but I WAS concentrating very hard, and decided that I had no "faith" at all. I spent a lot of time in church as a child. I was from a family of ministers. A "preacher's child" so to speak.

[Martha Weatherall]

I had learned to "skin the cat" on a pecan tree in Cruger, Ms. at my aunt's house. I was very proud of accomplishing this.

[Martha Weatherall]

We had a deep snow that year. in the park across the street my older brother was threatening me with a snowball and my little sister was just watching the events. This WAS the first time that we made "snow ice cream". Delicious!