{"id":775,"date":"2012-06-13T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tracyleekarner.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2012-06-13T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:38:09","slug":"random-things-about-tracy-lee-karner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2012\/06\/13\/random-things-about-tracy-lee-karner\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm color blind, and 9 other random things about me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wild White Trillium, northern Wisconsin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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  1. I adore a gentle breeze, a nice little hair-ruffling tickle, especially on a warm day, with butterflies flitting around in the wild flowers.<\/li>\n
  2. The audiologist who tested me said I hear like superwoman. Don\u2019t whisper if I\u2019m in the same auditorium–I just might understand every word.<\/li>\n
  3. My preferences are wide-ranging and quirky. I (and two other people in the world that I know of) enjoyed<\/em> reading the long, droll Education of Henry Adams<\/em>. I also (along with multi-millions) love listening to Willy Nelson.<\/li>\n
  4. I\u2019m fluent in German, and every day I spend an hour or two reading German, skyping friends in Germany, and\/or watching German public television on the internet to keep up my fluency.<\/li>\n
  5. I like salamanders, geckoes, and turtles. They\u2019re cute. Snakes are not cute, but they don\u2019t bother me. I still want all reptiles, cute or not, to stay outdoors where they belong.<\/li>\n
  6. As a child, the endless list of foods that gagged me included potatoes, hot dogs, margarine, gravy, cooked vegetables, egg yolks (I shared eggs with my brother, sort of like Jack Spratt and his wife–I got the white, he got the yolk). I also hated steak, chicken-on-the-bone, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, bread crust and cream-of-wheat but I grew into an adult who can eat, and usually likes, almost everything. I won\u2019t eat beetles, grubs or any other insect even though they\u2019re high in protein and readily available, and they may very well be tasty. I hope I\u2019ll never find out.<\/li>\n
  7. I\u2019ve tried, but the one thing I just can\u2019t make myself like is chilled zucchini-yogurt soup with curry. As my grandmother would say, \u201cish-ka-bibble.\u201d<\/li>\n
  8. My favorite flowers are wild and white–lily of the valley, white trillium, and bloodwort (which in our dialect was called bloodroot<\/em>, but at least we didn\u2019t say warsh<\/em> instead of wash<\/em>).<\/li>\n
  9. My favorite season is spring, until summer comes, and then summer is my favorite season until autumn arrives and autumn enthralls me. I love winter, too, for two weeks. Mostly, what I like about winter is yearning for spring.<\/li>\n
  10. I took a computer test designed by Harvard. They rapidly flashed zillions of faces at me, while I clicked buttons about whether the faces were friendly or unfriendly. This was supposed to determine whether I had racist tendencies. The result said I was one of the most color-blind people ever tested. Evidently, I barely notice a person\u2019s skin shade or ethnicity. I notice their humanity and whether their eyes and mouth are signaling subtle, universal gestures of welcome, or slight expressions of violence and cruelty. So, teach your children to sing \u201cJesus loves the little children\u201d (click here<\/a> to hear the song)\u00a0as soon as they can talk. Even if most of the people in their environment don\u2019t believe it, skin color has nothing to do with a person\u2019s right to be loved or respected, and that notion sometimes does take hold on children\u2019s hearts and make them color-blind for life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    My son and his friend, 1993.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I adore a gentle breeze, a nice little hair-ruffling tickle, especially on a warm day, with butterflies flitting around in the wild flowers. The audiologist who tested me said I hear like superwoman. Don\u2019t whisper if I\u2019m in the same auditorium–I just might understand every word. My preferences are wide-ranging and quirky. I (and two …<\/p>\n

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