Scene 3 From Temporal Blindness to Temporal Sight

Spatial blindness is about seeing the part without the whole.

Temporal blindness is about seeing the present without the past.

12 The Invisible Histories of the Swims We Are In

Several years ago, Karen Oshry, Joe Meier, and I set about what we thought would be a simple task. We were going to assemble a photo history of one of our Power Labs: twenty or so snapshots of events along with brief commentaries. Three years later we completed the project! (In fairness to us, not all of our time was spent on this project, but we spent considerably more time on it than we had anticipated.) Our plan at the outset was simple: Identify certain key events, match up the pictures, provide a few illuminating ...

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