A very smart man and his happiest moment

I was reading Kottke this morning, as I do almost every day because he finds really interesting things on the internet. Today he links to a blog entry by Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert," in which Adams describes both the loss of his voice 18 months ago and how he "remapped" his brain to work around the failure that led to the voice loss. He has now corrected it completely! This is one of the coolest things I remember reading about in a long time.

As if his story was not enough, at the end of his entry, Adams asks readers to briefly describe their happiest moment ever. It is a really good question, and one that I could not answer as easily as I thought I could. I plan to think about this today and post about it later. But I am interested in hearing what you consider your happiest moment of your life--please comment below!

In another less happy story, Kottke writes about American artist William Uterwohlen, who explored his descent into Alzheimer's-induced dementia through the painting of self portraits. My grandmother died from complications related to Alzheimer's and my mother remains certain that horrible disease will be the cause of her own demise. The paintings pictured with this story (click on the link to see all of them) tell the story better than the words, and it is heartbreaking.



Happily sleeping mini fox (by me).