Things I'm Glad I Have Seen

So I went for my annual eye exam today. I knew my eyes were getting worse. My glasses weren’t doing their job. After a thorough exam, the ophthalmologist agreed with me and told me to see an eye doctor. She was worried the medicine was affecting my sight since I had minimal eye problems before I was put on all this medication and now I can barely read anything without my glasses…..and now sometimes even with my glasses. (it’s funny. I’m always 20/20 in my dreams). I don’t think she wanted to alarm me. I’m not going blind. But it inspired me for today’s blog post. 

Things I’m Glad I Have Seen:

• A Cape Cod sunset from the beach outside our hotel, pink orange and red sweeping across the sky as the sun dips lower and eventually disappears from view

• The fog rising on a cool mountain morning as I sip my morning coffee and work on my morning pages while Dad sits across from me composing songs on his guitar

• The Sagrada Familia (a church in Barcelona) which looks like a cake that got water poured on it

• The church of St. Anne’s in Quebec where crutches and walkers decorate the walls representing people who got healed in this very church. I prayed. I was not one of them.

• The gentle ocean of Sannibal Island which houses starfish on the sea floor  that you can graze with your bare feet

• The waterfall at Nay Aug Park in Scranton with a siren song that makes you want to jump right in although you would surely dash your head on a rock and die

• The view of the railroad tracks marching through the University Scranton looking like an endless trail that you could always follow (Disclaimer: I was infatuated with those railroad tracks. When I was having a difficult time I would walk along them until adults in my life told me it was dangerous. I think that was part of the appeal)

• The farmhouse as it comes to view past the blinking light. It’s not ours anymore and I haven’t seen that light in forever. I wonder if it’s still blinking.