Sight and Songs are a big part of life and romance

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From Leesburg, FL, home of Lake Griffin and Lake Harris, many lakes here, this is Lake County! 

As age comes on or an accident happens, we can lose some of our senses. Most of the time we lose just apart of one. For us humans, the  most vulnerable are Sight and Sound.

I have a good friend who is mostly blind, disease did him in. He can tell day light from dark. Sherry and I met and had dinner with Bill Irwin, the blind man who hiked the Appalatchian Trail with his seeing eye dog, Orient. He smiled as we talked over dinner and I commented on how well mannered the dog was. “He is working now,” Bill said.

He also inconversation said he would rather have lost his eyesight versus his hearing.

I rationalize he has no choice, but he did have an upbeat explanation; using 'hearing warnings' but mostly 'music' to give a good backing for his reasoning.

Having lost my hearing I still cannot agree with him, I just cannot imagine being blind.

I was just a kid when we visited Uncle Oscar and Aunt Ruby. She was blind. But you would never know it around her house. I followed her into the kitchen once, I was about 6 or 7. She poured coffee and did not over fill. I asked her how she did that. She smiled, “Jackie notice my fore finger is just over the top of the cup, I can feel the heat as it gets close to the top.”

She told me she knew where every thing was placed in the house and she had no problem, but don’t you move a chair or I just might trip over it, she said that laughing.

Age dims our eyes, but eyeglasses helps. Cataract surgery is amazing, it clears up our eyes.

ALSO hearing aids can help the hearing, but NONE do for the ears what surgery or eye glasses do for the eyes. When you start losing your hearing it will NEVER be as good as new.

Today if I hear a song AND I KNOW the words, I can halfway understand it, but let me tell you something, When I hear, “Memories are made of This” by Dean Martin it will never again sound as good as it did when I held my sweetheart in my arms and heard it on a 1948 Chevy car radio.

I know the situations will never be the same, but neither with the solid words I heard when I was 16 and 17!

What song goes thru your mind when you were young and in love??

 Nite Shipslog

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