New Eyes

This is where I should have inserted the next installment of "My Artistic Journey (part 5)".

I feel like I'm in a bit of a holding pattern. At times it seems like something between the bumper to bumper on the freeway and the round and round circle that you see before all the water drains out in the bathtub!

Life gets like that sometimes. You know you are moving… but where to? …and, it seems, you have become that kid in the back seat asking, "Are we there yet?" While the reality of it is, you are the one sitting in the drivers seat with the foot on the brake and gas at the same time.

I have just gotten the OK from my Dr. that I have recovered enough from cataract surgery to go on with life. Not that I couldn't function before. But now life, after the operation, is looking so much brighter and sharper, I am tempted to wonder how I got by before.

I have seen in the last 2 years the increasing deterioration happening in my vision. Slowly things were growing darker and my glasses were not sharpening things as well as they used to. Looking back now, I am amazed at how much the body works to compensate for the weakness, still trying to rise towards normal function, but even so, the loss of the eyes precision becomes more and more obvious as time goes on.

Being an artist with a eye handicap has given me a perspective, although I'm sure that any person who depends on their eyes to do their work, might also say they have a story too.

I will need to wear glasses to read and do close up activities. This is not so new. Now I notice with my new eyes, reading is harder than before. I could read easier without glasses before but now that's all changed.

My distance vision is 20/15, which is better than average (20/20), so that is great! I will be  interested in seeing how this will affect future artwork.

As for now, the first thing I noticed was how bright the world looked! The color temperature has shifted from brown-yellow hues to the blue side of the spectrum. Did I mention how bright things look now? Wow! What a beautiful world I am seeing!!