seeing

for many of us, we take the gift of eyesight for granted.

it allows us to see the beauty in this world.

it can unfortunately, also allows us to pass judgement just by “seeing” something, or someone.

to go with the theme of “love” for the upcoming February 11 show…

what would you miss most if you could no longer see it?

what would you miss most if you could no longer see?

I have always cherished my eyesight and tremble with the thought of going blind, of no longer being able to see the beauty of this world.

I will admit that I have tolerated this vision issue that has crept up on me over the last 15 years, which has caused me to have slight double vision.

I just dealt with it, my brain compensated for it the best it could and continued on my merry way through life, seeing the world as if it were a 3D movie without the 3D glasses on.

But I finally gave it and got some corrective prism lenses made to help me with driving, to reduce the strain on my brain and eyes.

What I didn't expect was realizing just how much I was missing out on by not being able to see "clearly".

My brain has been so used to working with a split image, that when I put on these new glasses and I see a correct 3D image for the first time in ages... my brain is wanting to pull the image apart!

But as I relaxed my eyes I got to see depth again, I got to see the blood moon from lunar eclipse that happened a few days later.

I got to see everything! Clearly!

what do you see...

I have gone through a lot of change in the last couple of years. Growing... evolving at an accelerated rate.

I was blind in my past.
Lacking compassion.
Without empathy.

I chose to heal myself and with that came emotions.
I could feel again.
With that came compassion, empathy.

Things that many people take for granted.

Just like eyesight.

what do you see...

I understand now that until I learned to feel, to "see", with my heart.

To tear down the filters of judgement, guilt, shame and all those other dysfunctional mechanisms I had in place.

Could I only then be true to who I am.

Only then could I see.

And what a wonderful gift this is.

#chasingbutterflies