I decided on the heading for this blog with much apprehension on the Saturday morning before we left for Brighton and before my afternoon appointment with the Optician. I have no idea how this will continue - or indeed if it will.
Well, it has continued and there is a glad thing and a sad thing. Glad, very, that after an exhaustive eye examination, at Specsavers, Saturday afternoon, the kind young Optician assured me that my eyes were fine. It is perhaps rather horrid, but the manifestations are caused by the jelly in one of my eyes moving, as the artificial whatsit inserted when I had my Cataract operation is not as finely honed as the original one - as made by Jehovah! - and there is a bit more room. So this can happen. And it may well settle down and wear off. Though it also might not...
Very relieved, and very grateful, as I did pray about this. And I will have to get used to looking through a sort of misty veil and having some odd and alarming black threads rush across my eyes every so often. This is yet another reason why my driving days are over.
I chose an Ox-eye Daisy from Col's photo gallery to head this blog. They are out too, I noted as we drove along through blossom-lined roads.
The sad thing was that maybe Saturday was another of the "lasts" of old age. We went to the AGM of SOS - Sussex Ornithologists - a day of talks from people working in the field of Bird. We used to go to lots of these Conservation Meeting days in our years with Butterfly Conservation. It is always good to see how many people are volunteering their time, energy and money to try to care for the creation.
We were only there for the morning sadly, but it was interesting. However, whether I will be able to make another of these days is the problem - the sad thing. Was that my last? It is getting increasingly difficult. All being well, and if the venue is the same - Brighton University - I might try again next year.
But what a bleak place Brighton Uni is, building wise. Such a bleak campus. And I wonder why. Why not have made it beautiful?
The early Spring day was beautiful though - the creation still shines in spite of all the violence and the sadness in the world. I hope it can reassure us of the truth - that Jehovah, the Creator of this loveliness has not abandoned us and will not abandon us.
And I thought I would post Emily Dickinson's poem again - as it is just right for this time of year, as the trees begin to put on the green bonnets of Spring. I would love to have written it.
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