How to See
Yesterday was my 65th birthday. I had to take my own birthday picture as I am in isolation awaiting results of a COVID test. I wore the mask to remind myself in coming years why I took my own picture on my biggest birthday since birth. I am standing in my bedroom in my exercise area , a place very familiar to me, but until this picture, I had not really seen it, if you know what I mean. When you take a picture into a mirror, you see both what is ahead and behind you at the same time. Quite a different perspective. When I woke up this morning, one day into the final lap of my life, I had that same sensation of suddenly being able to see, both what was behind me and ahead of me, at the same time. I lay in bad longer than usual trying to grasp this different perspective, but gave it up when I remembered I have leftover birthday bagels and cream cheese this morning for breakfast. Coffee and food helped. Sitting in my thinking chair, I now have a thought on the change of per...