As previously mentioned, I have quite bad eyes.. Cataracts, glaucoma, epiretinal membrane and macular degeneration. I noticed recently (actually for quite a while now) that I “see slow”. When I see a person, it takes time to scan their face and recognize them. Yesterday in a store somebody called my name, I turned and waved and said hello and then they walked out of sight. I didn’t have time to really see their face. I stopped at a stoplight and looking at the license plate in front of me, some of the numbers will be blurred or seem to be missing parts, I absorb the numbers that I can see, and then I have to go back and like scan the parts that I can’t see clearly.
it’s difficult to describe what a defect in the vision is like. I can see okay to drive, reading still seems to be okay, but slower, and I practically need the extra large text I get on my Kindle.
Did you ever see somebody, like Stevie Wonder, move their head and fa kind of igure eight pattern? I catch myself doing something similar, trying to get a good part of the optic nerve to see the missing part of my eye’s image.
Haf a great weekend! A day pass at a Yoga/Meditation retreat on Saturday. It was completely fantastic. Relaxing and spiritual with a lot of new people coming into my life and time spent with dear old friends and teachers.
Sunday was Beach Yoga followed by an excellent coffee and breakfast with some fantastic yoginis, then an event at Eden Rock Dive.Center about a cruise ship terminal that has been proposed and re-proposed as long as I’ve been here. It can’t work. The water is too shallow. It would create problems on top of problems on top of problems, and kill the reef for miles. Vote NO!
And we had a good rain here last night, in fact, it just stopped raining.
To me, it wasn’t a particularly great night’s sleep, but I have been noticing and improvement over the past several months. I (I hope I don’t jinx myself by saying that!)
I know that this morning when the alarm went off I was dreaming that somebody had lost their car keys, and I was trying to “fix” a key so that it would work in their car. On a table in a restaurant. And the person who lost their keys was under the table.
The weekend is almost here! Have a peaceful, calm day.
I guess I’m going to another topic drought. Unless maybe I have written everything that I know and am in this blog. There’s no more topics, I’ll cover them all.
Every time, throughout the day, when I think of a possible topic, I’m sure I’ll remember it. And then I don’t. Every time. I have to learn to start writing them down..
The week is half done almost. I’m ready for the weekend already. A friend of mine turns 65 today, he’s working too.
here it is on a Tuesday morning, after a 4-day weekend. I didn’t do much., studied my course and laundry. Soon my yard neglect has to end. Once it starts raining, I’ll be back out there mowing.
ive been eating this cereal, it’s super good. I bought it because the store was out of my kind. This costs less and is better. Tastes better, more filling and probably better nutrition.
38% of the way done with my class. It’s going pretty well and I feel like I’m learning a lot of things. Also a few things that I thought I knew and now I’m not so sure. For example I thought chaturanga was a series of moves to get from forward fold pose to downward dog, it isn’t, it is it single position that is like a low plank with the elbows bent in 90°.
Also, things that I take for granted I might have to explain, for example what does it mean to “engage your core”?
But the class is going well and I’m really enjoying it.
Tomorrow and Monday are holidays here. Happy Easter!
Oh yeah, PS: today is this blogs 20th anniversary. 17 April 2005, 17 April 2025!