It's a windy day in the neighbourhood, the neighbourhood...I'm afraid my house may blow off it's foundation. Sorry, no rhyme there, just the truth.
The start of another week and hopefully an extension of the visual recovery that I had last week. Last week started with being able to see through the blank spot that has been affecting my vision for the past 6 weeks and the recovery each day was exhilarating. To lose any percentage of your eyesight is truly an eye opener and I was lucky enough to eventually get my sight back. Even though I can see through this spot, I still have trouble seeing yellows and things are darker than normal. Believe me, dim lighting is only cool for romantic dinners and watching television.
To say that I only had about 10% of my vision left may seem horrible but when you close your eyes and see nothing, 10% is a heck of a lot. And it's a lot to be grateful for.
I rely on my OTT Light at my desk and I really wish I had one shining on my clothes shelving so I could pick out blue jeans vs black jeans. I've only been wearing white shirts lately because that's the easiest to pick out of the closet. That and any colour sweater that may match blue or black jeans.
For whatever reason, my creative juices have started to flow in that, I have been thinking about sewing or knitting crafts as Christmas presents. Why would that happen when I can't see well enough to do any of that. Is that just a challenge that my mind has given me to prove that I can do it with only minimal vision? I have been imagining the photos that I will enlarge and the posters of my pictures that I will create and the frames that I will make...maybe not such a good idea to be using a skill saw with reduced eyesight. Is it a good idea to be making posters when I don't really see colours as I think they should be, which may become distorted to what actually is?
I may have to take that challenge anyway, just so that when I do see normally again, and I will, I will look back on this past eight weeks of visual distortion (pain included) as a growth and maturity that got me to that point in life, be it good or bad.
Let the healing continue...namaste
Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Starting to blog
In procrastinating for one thing on my to do list, I've started another task, a blog spot.
One of my interests is agriculture and I hope that I can educate, vent, ramble, discuss anything related to agriculture. If you ate it, somebody grew it. If something else comes up, that'll be included as well.
My thoughts at the moment are really concerning procrastination. I'm really good at it and I wish I weren't. I want to be one of those people that when they are given a task, I would just do it, no excuses.
I was at the massage therapist yesterday and because when she had her fingers behind my head pressing on the base of my skull and my left shoulder twitched, she said that was an indication that I was full of ideas and not able to express them. The woman is a psychic without a crystal ball. Not only that, she basically told me my life story because I'm an aquarian. I agree with a lot of the things she was telling me and we had quite a conversation, even if I was trying to breathe evenly through the pain she was causing on the back of my head.
I seem to have a mental block/writers block and can't get beyond it. I have lots of ideas, I just can't seem to express them on computer, on paper, or verbally. Hence, the blog and I'll just spew with my fingers on the keyboard until something of any substance comes out. Ha, ha, read on as this will be my therapy until it becomes an informative message board for agriculture and it's consumers.
Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions, questions or opinions. It's time for me to write an article regarding Championing Agriculture based on a one day conference with Michele Payn-Knoper (www.causematters.com) informing Islanders how we as agriculturallists need to be the greatest advocates of food and farming we can be so that consumers feel they are informed, knowledgeable and confident about the food they eat.
Have a great day,
gwynabelle
One of my interests is agriculture and I hope that I can educate, vent, ramble, discuss anything related to agriculture. If you ate it, somebody grew it. If something else comes up, that'll be included as well.
My thoughts at the moment are really concerning procrastination. I'm really good at it and I wish I weren't. I want to be one of those people that when they are given a task, I would just do it, no excuses.
I was at the massage therapist yesterday and because when she had her fingers behind my head pressing on the base of my skull and my left shoulder twitched, she said that was an indication that I was full of ideas and not able to express them. The woman is a psychic without a crystal ball. Not only that, she basically told me my life story because I'm an aquarian. I agree with a lot of the things she was telling me and we had quite a conversation, even if I was trying to breathe evenly through the pain she was causing on the back of my head.
I seem to have a mental block/writers block and can't get beyond it. I have lots of ideas, I just can't seem to express them on computer, on paper, or verbally. Hence, the blog and I'll just spew with my fingers on the keyboard until something of any substance comes out. Ha, ha, read on as this will be my therapy until it becomes an informative message board for agriculture and it's consumers.
Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions, questions or opinions. It's time for me to write an article regarding Championing Agriculture based on a one day conference with Michele Payn-Knoper (www.causematters.com) informing Islanders how we as agriculturallists need to be the greatest advocates of food and farming we can be so that consumers feel they are informed, knowledgeable and confident about the food they eat.
Have a great day,
gwynabelle
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