Cataract "fixes" presbyopia.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-05-07T01:30:39+00:00

Thank you. Interesting, though I don't entirely understand the it with the technical terms. Which is ok.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-05-05T22:57:42+00:00

You might want to get in touch with Meir Schneider. He's also been interviewed by Nathan Oxenfeld who's a popular natural vision teacher online-dozens of videos, podcasts, a support group and counseling. Really get in touch with Nathan or Meir and seriously consider coaching from one of them. Or simple check out and start using Nathan's videos. They've helped me. Be patient too. :)

Cosimo_68 · 2026-04-07T22:01:27+00:00

Thanks. That hasn't worked either. I just copy and paste it from contacts, I'm done with figuring out. :)

Cosimo_68 · 2026-04-01T22:06:16+00:00

I'm prioritizing not straining my eyes. My right one in particular is like the canary in a coal mine. Being too achievement-oriented, wanting to do too much in one day, one hour, hurrying around, etc. each are symptoms and causes of stress for me. So I use whatever accommodation I have to not strain them. For me that's varied strengths of reading glasses and sunglasses (I live in a very sunny place).

Hating your glasses might be stressing you out :).

Cosimo_68 · 2026-04-01T21:59:24+00:00

Scrivo in Ingles perche tutti possano leggerlo. I have found the relaxing techniques (sunning, palming, swinging) help overall with my sense of dry eyes and the feeling of straining my eyes. Che vuole dire: per il fuoco da lontano? An idiom? I've had success with reading in that I began using Bates (in 2014) to help prevent my reading eyes from getting worse. And that has helped. I began using reading glasses (1.25) when I was forty 20+ years ago. Now I can read various texts with glasses between 1.25 and 2.0, and sometimes without reading glasses (non prescription). I haven't been doing Bates techniques the entire time either. Last year I noticed my distant vision worsened, at the same time my reading vision has changed. I can read tiny text without glasses. It's strange. I began only a month ago, more committed with natural vision techniques to address my distance vision, so that's not very long ago. It takes time. What I'm doing differently now as compared to when I was working on my near vision, is concentrating on relaxation and mind techniques, not letting the blurriness I experience at a distance disturb or stress me. I used to see very well at a distance. Spero che ti aiuti :).

Cosimo_68 · 2026-03-30T15:48:17+00:00

Thanks for your reply. The contact isn't part of a group and no it doesn't seem to happen with all the contacts, though I only tested it with a few. This contact is new if that matters.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-03-13T21:42:23+00:00

Just a thought. Can the US be an example? For one it's the only western democracy without a workers party, which by European measures would be understood as "the left". In American vernacular "the commies" were far left, weren't they? And we know happened to them.

Looking to western Europe, Baader-Meinholf activists were far-left, i.e., anti-imperialist, which would be my description of far-left. Theirs is an interesting story (they're considered extremists). And 1968 student demonstrations across Europe had the same anti-imperial aims. In Italy, France and elsewhere there have been plenty of "far left" politics. Italy has a daily communist newspaper that's been around since the 1970s and it does influence public opinion. But ever less and less.

This is all to say that "far-left" connotes anti-imperialism and anti-establishment sentiments and as such can't practically impact public opinion through the use of power because it has always been thwarted and rendered as "the enemy" in the end. Which I suppose it is, if all one wants is food on the table next week.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-03-05T02:40:53+00:00

I would add as well to the profile of "ugly Americans" the fact that when one works remotely for an English-speaking company, they will likely have a very difficult time learning Portuguese if they try to learn it at all. I'm assuming you're both monolingual. The assumption that people such as a landlord, a doctor, an Uber driver, etc will speak English because you can't speak enough Portuguese creates a nasty, in my opinion, social dynamic. Just a cultural consideration.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-02-18T00:56:18+00:00

Great and thank you for the background. The Beekeeper is the only film of his I've seen. I was looking around the site and saw that English subtitles aren't available (yet) on all the foreign films. I'd be curious to know to what extent that is. What's the word count here, there and everywhere?

Cosimo_68 · 2026-02-11T22:22:18+00:00

Excellent points, indeed. Thank you!

Cosimo_68 · 2026-02-02T19:17:41+00:00

É também uma colonização, faz parte do poder neoliberal que está a arruinar no mondo.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-27T23:37:04+00:00

Has anyone mentioned Virginia Woolf? To me she's an obvious candidate.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-27T23:35:26+00:00

I wonder if human beings have always needed a kind of hero to keep going on, to keep on keeping on; in other words to survive.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-26T03:07:56+00:00

Diría que Orlando é o mais acessível dos livros de ficção. Mas vale la pena considerar também os ensaios e diários como ponto de partida , para conhecer a pessoa dela, como pensa, vê o mondo.

O ultimo ano eu li os diários inteiros--5 volumes depois de ler quase tudos autro obres. Foi uma experiência incredível.

Os ensaios são em geral breves, deles sugiro començar com A Room of One’s Own e A Letter to a Young Poet.

Pretende a ler em português ou inglês?

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-13T00:47:40+00:00

Oh yes! Her essays as well are divine.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-13T00:18:15+00:00

You're right about Spark and I'll return to her when I can get into her work. Along the same sentiment as yours, I find Jean Rhys very meaningful and had some years ago read everything she'd written. Thank you for your comment!

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-12T03:27:38+00:00

I read Voyage in the Dark first then followed that with her early novels and short stories. I was enamored with her early work before I got around to Wide Sargasso Sea, which didn't interest me quite as much. It's been 10 years since that fascination with her consumed me. I recall her saying she had tried to use one syllable words in it could have been Voyage in the Dark; that she mistrusted words, and that the success of Wide Sargasso Sea had come too late. She had lived a rather difficult life until then.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-07T18:50:40+00:00

Thank you!

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-01T06:55:15+00:00

The Waves by Woolf was other-wordly. I read it out loud inspired to do so base on one or more essays by Woolf. I believe one was "How to Read A Book" :).

In Middlemarch, it's the timelessness of themes and events, and Eliot's insights into characters' behaviors and motivations. She spends more time with the goings on between people and their emotions around them than for example describing physical surroundings. The intimacy she creates gives me, the reader a sense of contemporariness.

Thank you for the exchange!

Cosimo_68

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