{"id":633,"date":"2015-02-05T06:41:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2015-02-05T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:53:10","slug":"face-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Face Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just been listening to a fascinating podcast put out by Radiolab titled \u2018Strangers in the Mirror.\u2019<\/a> In this podcast, two men are interviewed who have a condition known as \u2018Face Blindness\u2019; neither Oliver or Chuck can recall any person with whom they have been conversing. In fact, they forget and cannot recognize their own faces! One of them tells the story of having a conversation with another person only to realize the synchronous movements meant he was talking to himself in a mirror. Another story told is of the man preening his own beard only to realize the non-synchronous movements revealed he was preening another man\u2019s beard!<\/p>\n

I am on the other end of the scale. I tend to remember people\u2019s faces for years, and have often been in a situation where I meet someone months or years later and have this recollection of meeting, and within a few minutes have sussed where we met and the circumstances of that meeting. What is more troublesome, for me, is that I am so visual in a first meeting with someone that I lock away an image of their face but have no clue of their name when we conclude the conversation!<\/p>\n

There i\"IMG_3482\"<\/a>s a famous blessing in the book of Numbers in the Old Testament of the Bible that goes like this: The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace<\/em>. There is another in the second letter to the Corinthian church: For now we see only a reflection in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.<\/em><\/p>\n

Language of \u2018the face\u2019 and recognizing facial expressions are so much part of the human experience! And it\u2019s also a way of speaking to one\u2019s interaction with God. I remember moments when my sister, who is deaf, would turn away from my dad so she couldn\u2019t see his face to read his lips or demeanor. It\u2019s the same when someone puts up their hand and says \u2018talk to the hand \u2018cause the face doesn\u2019t wanna know.\u2019 There is something profound and intimate in a \u2018face to face\u2019 interaction, and I\u2019m not speaking of lip-locking action! I\u2019m speaking of the mutual gaze into another’s heart and the communion of communication that goes beyond words.<\/p>\n

I hope you will bless someone with that kind of care and love today. It is as divine as God blessing you or me with his posture, his face toward you<\/em> giving you deep serenity and the confidence to face whatever circumstances come your way today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just been listening to a fascinating podcast put out by Radiolab titled \u2018Strangers in the Mirror.\u2019 In this podcast, two men are interviewed who have a condition known as \u2018Face Blindness\u2019; neither Oliver or Chuck can recall any person with whom they have been conversing. In fact, they forget and cannot recognize their own …Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}