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Lorena first came to see me in 2007 when she was 69. She had varifocals but she only used them sometimes for reading. She could see 6/6 on the distance chart but found reading small print harder. She was reading … Continue reading →

I always thought that I wouldn’t work with people who had had laser eye surgery. If someone decides to go the surgical route that is the opposite of natural vision improvement so what can I do. But when soemone comes … Continue reading →

As a post script to the peripheral vision response in the last post is this. Minus lenses minify an image. This means that the full picture is made smaller and projected onto a smaller portion of the retina. So the … Continue reading →

Now, it’s now that this starts again. ‘Mindfulness is very much like what you see with your peripheral vision as opposed to the hard focus of normal or central vision. Yet this moment of soft, unfocused awareness contains a very … Continue reading →

Exploring the metaphor and reality of clearing. Clearing the space, the air. Clean sweep. And a poem made me cry yesterday. How long since that? So long, but there it is. Miss you writing miss you. My house full of … Continue reading →

And in and out and in and out and I do lots of different things and my eyesight improves in bits and pieces and I get more control, but nothing is like this. This week I have started palming again, … Continue reading →

so my vision is so variable I feel like a fraud talking about it because the nex tmoment it is different. I got a new CSR in my left eye blocking some of the vision which totally reformed my life … Continue reading →

today some gentle gentle clarity outside. Touching moments not lost. Sitting quietly. Doing what’s needing done. So so relieved to have stepped aside from frantic …for a while? I feel the soles of my feet on the ground.

The last day like this went unrecorded. A day when I see really really clearly for a time. People’s faces a long way down the street, not a hint of doubling or shadows or holes. Sometimes I panic and am … Continue reading →

When I am searching into blur I look for edges on things. But when I see clearly it is not the clean ines that I notice. It is the intensity of the colours the immensity of the depth and how … Continue reading →