YET ANOTHER INSPIRING STORY
So check out the guy who's getting his own TV show on Oprah Winfrey's new network:
"Meet Zach Anner, a 26-year-old filmmaker from Austin, Tex., who just won his own television show on Oprah Winfrey’s new network. He’s handsome, smart and funny — oh, and he gets around in a wheelchair. Mr. Anner has cerebral palsy, “the sexiest of the palsies,” as he puts it in his audition video.
That line, along with a spoof of a failed TV show about yoga, has won him legions of online fans. (“This isn’t yoga,” he tells the camera as he writhes on the floor. “I’m just putting on pants.”)
In an online contest for a spot on “Your Own Show” on OWN, the video received more than nine million votes — and not because of Mr. Anner’s disability, according to Lee Metzger, the show’s executive producer.
“You do see the chair, and he has some erratic movements, ” Mr. Metzger said. “But once you start to talk to him, you see that his chair and his body are not what he’s all about. He’s a bright guy with a lot of great ideas, and he’s funny.”
Cerebral palsy is caused by abnormalities in parts of the brain that control muscle movements. In mild cases, patients may have slurred speech and motor impairments; in severe ones, the symptoms include irregular posture, spasticity and inability to walk.
Other performers have had cerebral palsy, among them RJ Mitte, who plays a teenager on the AMC series “Breaking Bad”; Josh Blue, who won the NBC reality show “Last Comic Standing” in 2006 with routines that mocked his own lack of motor control; and Geri Jewell, who had a recurring role on “The Facts of Life” in the 1980s.
But their disabilities appear less severe compared with those of Mr. Anner, who has spasticity in all four limbs.
A native of Buffalo, Mr. Anner said his parents insisted he attend regular schools and be treated just like other children. “My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts,” he said. (His mother teaches acting and playwriting at the University at Buffalo; his father is a bartender and videographer, with a passion for travel.) “Everything was always about finding creative energy and finding different ways to do things.”
By his own account, he does not lack self-confidence. At a book signing for Bill Clinton’s “My Life,” Mr. Anner ignored the publicist who declined his request for an interview with the former president — “Being 20 at the time, I wasn’t going to listen to that,” he said — and shouted his question: “Being an environmentalist, how do you intend to save the trees with a book that’s this long?”
Mr. Anner says Mr. Clinton was gracious in his reply, joking that perhaps the 1,008-page book should have been printed on recycled plastic."

Read the whole thing.  I think there's several things we with Moebius and/or facial differences can learn here.  Note that it IS possible to see past differences; when it came to Zach Anner, people realized--he's a funny, intelligent guy.  Notice also that Anner and his family were not afraid of getting out there, doing things, saying yes to life.  That's why he attended regular schools and was not afraid to submit a video for Oprah Winfrey's contest.  It's inspiring.  Zach Anner did it.  He achieved.  We can too.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO HIT THE POOL
Want good exercise?  Is running tough on your legs, knees, and joints?  Consider swimming.
South Carolina researchers who followed thousands of people found that those who regularly swam lived longer.

OR MEDITATE
It can be good for reducing your sensitivity to pain:
"You don't have to be a Buddhist monk to experience the health benefits of meditation. According to a new study, even a brief crash course in meditative techniques can sharply reduce a person's sensitivity to pain.
In the study, researchers mildly burned 15 men and women in a lab on two separate occasions, before and after the volunteers attended four 20-minute meditation training sessions over the course of four days. During the second go-round, when the participants were instructed to meditate, they rated the exact same pain stimulus -- a 120-degree heat on their calves -- as being 57 percent less unpleasant and 40 percent less intense, on average.
"That's pretty dramatic," says Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The reduction in pain ratings was substantially greater than those seen in similar studies involving placebo pills, hypnosis, and even morphine and other painkilling drugs, he adds."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best
to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other
innovations." -Steve Jobs