Dave TheDruid-3X3Awens to All:
Here is something that Nimue Brown wrote that is based on her Present Challenges of Life which I have found to be quite Profound.
It Goes:
While I’ve experienced considerable grief around the loss of eyesight I’ve also been feeling a great deal of gratitude. This is taking two forms. The first one is pretty obvious, I’m not completely blind, and I’m grateful for everything I can still see. I have some hope of recovery, and day by day small things return to me. Every time a detail, a colour, or similar becomes available to me again, the joy and gratitude are intense.
Along side this, I’ve also been feeling intense gratitude for how I’ve lived to this point. I’ve spent my life looking at the world with love, curiosity and enthusiasm. I’ve paid attention to the beauty of landscapes and the natural world. All of that remains inside me. Having that body of experience is something I can keep no matter what else happens. Right now, buttercups are strange luminous things and I cannot properly see their yellowness, but I can see them enough to remember.
Everyone faces challenges and setbacks. None of us knows what life might take away, or when. The only answer is to live fully and wholeheartedly, making the best of whatever you’ve got. I’m glad of how I’ve spent my time to this point, and the many visible riches I treasured when I had the opportunity. It’s often the things we don’t do that we come to regret the most, and my approach to life in the past has protected me from that at least where this loss of vision is concerned.
Today I saw goslings. They were fuzzy, in my vision as well as in themselves, but I could tell they were there. It feels like a blessing.