Alice Walker had an accident as a child that blinded her in one eye. She wrote about the experience and about sight in her short story, "Beauty When the Other Dance is the Self." I've loved this story since the first time I read it in 1997. She expresses perfectly how I feel right now.
"I am in the desert for the first time. I fall totally in love with it. I am so overwhelmed by its beauty, I confront for the first time, consciously, the meaning of the doctor's words years ago: "Eyes are sympathetic. If one is blind, the other will likely become blind too." I realize I have dashed about the world madly, looking at this, looking at that, storing up images against the fading of the light. But I might have missed seeing the desert! The shock of that possibility--and gratitude for over twenty five years of sight--sends me literally to my knees. Poem after poem comes--which is perhaps how poets pray."
I am so glad you're happy. And as much as sometimes I don't like it here, I have to say that SE Idaho has the best sunsets ever! I forgot about those when I was in Utah and after I moved back and saw the first one, I was in awe!
ReplyDeleteThat's an awesome quote btw I may have to look the rest of it up.
The sunsets are pretty great.
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