MOEBIUS SYNDROME IN THE NEWS
Our friend Elisa Schumacher Relyea--another Moebius hero:
"A MOTHER-of-two has never smiled because a rare condition means she cannot move her face.
Elisa Schumacher Relyea, 42, has Moebius Syndrome – congenital facial paralysis.
She has never been able to smile at her­ ­children, or even at her husband Tim, 44, on her wedding day.
Elisa, a public relations consultant from New York, had surgery at 16 to alter her face – including putting gold in her eyelids to help them shut.  She joked: “I feel my face looks more positive now.
“I can win in any staring competition and I really wish I played poker because my poker face is incontestable!”

By the way, recently the New York Times in its science section ran a long article about scientific analyses of a smile--physically how it happens, what it means, etc etc etc.

Of course, what the piece did NOT do is consider the possibility of people who cannot smile---but who find other ways to do so, from within.  Something to think about, NY Times!

"Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish
to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought
corresponds with our desire." -Orison Swett Marden