Like many others, I was born with a small gift for seeing the world in a way that lets me, on occasion, create something that is mildly amusing and is the kind of thing that doesn't always occur to some but is the kind of thing that adds a little warmth to life; a little specialness that - without it - the world would just seem like a very odd, cold place. Perhaps also like many others, I suffer an impatience to perfect this "talent," and it languishes as I search for other things to occupy my mind, other subjects...other "general learning." ...and then, there's the severe color-blindness...