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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??
PS
Thanks for all the visits, and the BEST OF comments, THANKS!! Memories are what is left. Some of them ain't so bad!! Love all you guys…
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4 comments:
You had me at Dean Martin! (lol) I can't remember any particular 'love' songs ... probably something on the Top 100's playlist of the year. Sometimes I think I was born too late, on account I love the sound of the 40's and 50's.
Speaking of blindness! My favorite (Bible) speaker and author, Jennifer Rothschild, completely lost her sight at age 15. Aside from her cane and assist from hubby, you'd never guess. Challenges overcome like this humble me big time.
I don't know which would be harder in my mind - I guess site. Boy people sure have to have courage and hearing too. You are right there is nothing like the hearing and site God gives us originally. I can't believe it walked that trail.
I like Dean Martin too - and Frank Sinatra. Haven't thought about them for a long time.
It is amazing what some people overcome.
Thankfully, I still have all my senses and cannot imagine being without one of them. I am very blessed. They say when one looses a sense, the others become stronger. I can't remember any particular song that I loved best but we used to have a lot of good ones back in the day. Dean Martin was good for sure!
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