mauvepink, as to which is worse, blindness or deafness, studies say that deaf people report themselves as more isolated and lonelier than those who can't see. I haven't heard an explanation for it but my guess is that a blind person knows more of what is going on around him/her as well as at a reasonable distance. A deaf person, on the other hand, has no way of knowing the subject other than body language, whether the people in the vicinity are animated or in sorrow or serene.

When I said 'color', I do mean 'colors' and how they affect each other. Colors, tones, shades, luminosity, transparency and opaqueness, the colors of birds and insects and jewels, of skies and oceans and reflections, the colors and shadings of people's faces, spring colors, autumn colors, the colors of winter and of summer. A person could write a book about it, a person could (Hi KT!).