I have been very bad recently. I have not been taking care of business like I should. I have been listening to several audio books on BARD as one distraction.
Even though I cannot actually read the books I like to go to the bookstore to browse. I saw the latest J.D. Robb, Echoes in Death, and – praise be! – it was available for free from BARD!
I would like to ‘read’ the new Lisbeth Salander novel (The Girl Who Took an Eye for an Eye), but it is not available yet in BARD. Watch and wait. Anticipate a good read. The new guy is not exactly Stieg Larssen but he is none too shabby either. I am a Lisbeth fan.
Do you have favorite authors? They are probably available on BARD. If I am just browsing, the BARD offerings are overwhelming for me. I have found browsing the bookstore and looking later for titles that interest me is more productive.
I also sometimes check the new offering and download something out of the ordinary for me but that still sparks interest. Mix it up. Keep it fresh.
We took my photos to the competition site this week. Now I get to wait and see how I fare.
I like to go to the photo show and listen to people spout off about my work. This is especially true if I place. Someone always manages to say he could have taken that photo if he had been able to go on that vacation.
When I talked about that to a friend, she laughed and wondered out loud what these people would think if they knew the photographer was ‘half blind’.
I am not sure I would want that particular piece of information to change their attitudes. I am not sure I would want concessions just because I have a vision loss. Let them be snarky about my work. Let them criticize me like they do everyone else. I chose to be in the fray with all the ‘normal’ people. Snarky, sour grapes comments just come with the territory.
Of course, if they knew, I might get a double whammy. I might get criticized not only for going cool places, but also for ‘courting’ the sympathy vote. Damned if you do ….
Up all night (literally) that same night caring for the dog and asleep from 6 pm until the morning the next night. Just trying to recover.
All nighters at 64 do not have the same effect as all nighters when you are 24. God, how did we do it?
Not that they were derelictions of duty. In my opinion, caring for others as well as for yourself are some of the highest callings.
So those things – plus dance exercise and yoga classes – are the reasons my reports have not been done and my pages have not gotten written. Let things get lax but then tighten back up. Today I wrote one report and about half of another. Tomorrow I go to my hospital’s first vision seminar and take lots of notes for pages. Sometimes you just have to let the horse out of her harness. Sometimes you have to put her back in.
Written September 22nd, 2017