oliver sacks

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from the Wired Interview with Oliver Sacks

Sacks: People with Williams are helplessly empathic — they starve if they don't get both human and musical contact. The emotional parts of their brains, like the amygdala, may be unusually large, as well as areas in the temporal lobes concerned with hearing, speech, and music. For people with Williams, the human, musical, and conversational abilities all seem to go together.

I look forward to his new book on music and the mind.
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left foot, right foot

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I was talking with Treigh's dad, Shane, while Treigh played over at our house. We got to talking about the neighborhood, and I said I'd taken a walk in Mittineague Park, down the blocked road by the entrance and down to the old pool. I asked about the trails back there, and he told me there is one that runs parallel to the railroad tracks by the Agawam Westfield River.

( more text and some phone pictures )

more about mittineague

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Excerpts from my flickr photoset on the old Mittineague pool.

( after the cut, of course )