LIVE MAGAZINE VOL 8, Issue #208 May 1st THRU May 15th, 2015

Blind
Blind
Perspective
Perspective
ALEX’S PET GROOMING
PROFESSIONAL GROOMING SERVICE
Life In The Goes Moment On
By Michael Tapia
Late April, 1995, Silver Lake, California. I’m struggling to watch
television. My eyesight has stabilized since eye surgery in
Early February. April, 2015. However, Palm Springs, my left California. eye can barely Ramon make and I out have the planned imagery. a day with a flurry
of
I am
activities,
watching
beginning
a program
with brunch
on PBS
at
about
The Purple
India.
Palm.
I notice a long
“Michael,
line of people
this place
linked
is so
with
beautiful!
their hands
It takes
making
me back
their
to the
way
1930’s.
through
The Spanish Colonial
architecture the market is place. very impressive It suddenly and becomes the restaurant clear is to so me nice that by the they pool.” “I’m so glad
you are like a line it here of blind Ramon.” people guiding one another. The line seems
interminable. I am taken aback by the image, and turn off the
Our television. brunch is I delightful. lie in the dark, We top and it off contemplate with a creamy my chocolate inevitable caramel torte.
blindness.
“Oh my Gosh! This is so very delicious, Ramon!”
“Will I be like a blind person in India?” I mumble to myself. Zacky
He and spoon Momma feeds Girl, me the my chocolate two cats, torte jump and on hazelnut the bed, ice sensing cream. my
angst. Zacky nudges against my foot with his long whiskers and
“Delicious
Momma
indeed,
Girl curls
Michael.
up under
Are
my
you
armpit.
ready for our hike in Palm Canyon?” Ramon asks.
“Oh yeah, I need to walk off some of this sugar!”
I’m so fortunate to be in this country and not in India, I think to
We myself. drive south I’ll be to 39 Indian soon Canyons and have for much some to great celebrate. hiking. Soon My we partner park the car at the
Palm Dan Canyon was not trailhead, so fortunate. and I open We my were white a year cane, and and a take day Ramon’s apart, he elbow. He guides
me being down the some elder. switchbacks to a palm shaded oasis.
“Michael, I gently get did you off the know bed that and this is the largest fan palm oasis in the Americas?”
have a strong urge to look
“Wow, in the that’s mirror. amazing I turn Ramon!” the
bathroom light on. It is bright
We and continue luminescent. to hike through I can barely the dense
canopy make out of palm the trees features that on follow the creek.
“The
my face.
water
The
level
mirror
is so low
appears
in the creek
since fogged, I was as here if from last. the Four steam years of of drought
have a shower. taken their Thirty toll.” nine. Ramon I never says. “Yes,
we thought all need I’d to make do our it. part I stare in conserving into
water. the mirror Global transfixed warming is with not a all myth,” I add
emphatically!
of life’s obdurance and human
malleability.
We end the day with dinner on the patio at
my Late place. April, 2015. Palm Springs,
California. I unfurl my white
“This cane meal and is walk sublime, out to Michael! greet Thank you.”
Suddenly
the cab
a
driver
loud hooting
in front
can
of my
be heard above
us. apartment. ”Michael, it’s It’s a a huge beautiful Great Horned day, Owl.
It’s and almost I’m filled two feet with tall!“ excitement “Yes Ramon, the
owl to celebrate lulls me to my sleep 59th every birthday! night!” ”How
magical Life goes Michael. on, filled Such with a beautiful magic sound.”
Entranced, and promise! we sit in the moment and listen.
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