Humanities resources to support healthcare professionals and patients
More notes after the operation on my right eye (26 March 2010), whose cataract was more rigid and opaque. This time the onrush of light is less specific and more generalised. It’s not so much that things appear better lit, but, rather that I’m acutely aware of how everything is surrounded by light. The element Read More …
I scowl towards his voice. He says the map marks how far vision goes. If I could creep up close I’d learn the journey. His technique restricts me to a chair so he can track how far I travel down the chart alone before I pause. I grope in the third line – my limit Read More …
When I consider how to represent my sixth of working light, my words collide with your fear of dark. Your visions hide the blindness born with me. You mourned sight sent before you into death. Let me invent a new account–half- light to place beside your grief, the beauty of blind life denied. I’d rather Read More …
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent When I consider how my light is spent, E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least Read More …
Touch Life – movie from Aeon.co. Commentary A 13 minute film touching gently on anxiety about meeting a partner’s parents, being blind, screenreaders, and a guide dog. Beautifully filmed and edited with carefully framed Edinburgh scenery. Blindness is just-one-of-the-facts, and this feels a very authentic portrayal. Agata, a young, blind Polish woman, plans to travel Read More …