Yet another postrecovered from last summer’s drafts:
"Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped. Born physically normal in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Keller lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen months to an illness now believed to have been scarlet fever. Five years later, on the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, her parents applied to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston for a teacher, and from that school hired Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Through Sullivan’s extraordinary instruction, the little girl learned to understand and communicate with the world around her. She went on to acquire an excellent education and to become an important influence on the treatment of the blind and deaf."
While re-reading the paragraph copied from Wikipedia, above, can you spot which fact proves most enlightening when considering how insight serves to heighten a person's intuitive awareness? (in sight)
I'd never have perceived of the hypothesis that has shaped up inside my head, overnight, had I not spent the past two years utterly mesmerized by everything Ravi's bright young mind soaks in, week by week, suggesting that by the age of 19 months, Ravi's mental awareness and sweetly inquisitive nature had actively absorbed a wealth of sights and meaningful sounds so as to have stimulated our sunshine child to parrot back more of our words, actions and behaviors than we, who make up her doting family, can believe as each of us marvels at the charming nature of this small child's eagerness to fill the mental capacity of her processor from morning to night by absorbing and storing everything she sees and hears within her memory bank (and if you ask how I know that which she understands at this fledgling stage of her mental development, I'd reply: All one needs to do is to listen to her precocious questions, verbal responses and see how her fully animated, facial expressions and reactive body language mirrors our own. Way before the age of two, Ravi’s facial expressions and body language naturally matched her emotional reactions each time she chose to say: I happy! I sad. I berry mad!
Has your intuitive perceptiveness begun to catch my drift?
During Helen’s first nineteen months of life, her earliest interactive mental memories of sights and meaningful sounds had been recorded within this bright child’s brain, if not consciously, subconsciously ...
Below, let's consider several photos of Ravi (At least 1,500 have been stored within my computer's memory bank—uh—I mean hard drive, over these past two years), each of which shows us a toddler experiencing small slices of family life between the ages of one and two, starting with Papa's 74th birthday, last year and ending with Papa's 75th birthday, several months ago. In addition to learning how to play hide and seek before she turned two, Ravi exhibited as much delight in hugging, kissing and tickling her adoring family as we adore hugging, kissing, tickling and interacting in any way with her. Over this past year, this bright, lovable child, whose inquisitive intelligence has been readily absorbing a fledgling awareness of need to tether natural demonstrations of frustration by asking for help, has, without question, chosen to activate her membership in our family's mutual admiration society.
Imagine a small, happy, well-loved child seeing, hearing, participating in and thoroughly enjoying immeasurable demonstrations of love and countless aspects of daily life within the time frame of one year only to awaken, one day, from illness, that had stolen much more than her hearing and sight, leaving her confounded state of mind feeling utterly alone with no clue as to how everything and everyone could have disappeared without a trace or heartfelt explanation as darkness, silence, loneliness, frustration and confounding fear were Helen's only companions for five years—except, thank goodness, for the fact that the human brain automatically absorbs and stores everything that has been seen, heard, experienced and felt within subconscious memory, and here's where the importance of heartfelt, intuitive association comes into play, advancing Helen's stunted learning process by way of employing hindsight's illuminating flashes of insight: Once the knowledgable, compassionate teacher appeared, Anne Sullivan's creative, interactive talents jumpstarted Helen's thwarted mental development, resulting in hot wiring her hungry, eager, young mind to adapt to 'seeing and hearing' and loving by way of 'touching and feeling' ...
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