A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
No, I’m not turning my hand to writing mystery books Rather, this is my attempt to describe an unexpected challenge of not using tap water in India, which we’d been warned against by countless people. Washing our hands with liquid sanitiser was no hardship – we’ve been doing it for ages with the severe drought …
I know mom’s writing about her recent trip to India, so I decided to keep to her theme. From my own perspective, of course! Even though mom’s back now, I want to go back to the day before she left – to that moment when I first noticed that the dreaded suitcases had emerged from …
From the title of this post you might suspect I’ve switched genres and started writing bad science fiction. I promise that isn’t the case. The Mother House is the name given by locals to refer to Mother Theresa’s home in Kolkata, India. And that was the first site we visited on a day out in …
“Don’t drink the water – don’t even brush your teeth with it unless it’s from a bottle!” “It’s a very dirty city, and you’ll see signs of abject poverty every time you step outside your hotel!” These were just two of a multitude of cautionary messages that came our way when we started talking about …
Do you have any idea how bizarre it was for me to realize that I’m using my white cane to walk around independently for the first time ever? Please don’t think I wasn’t taught to use a white cane when I first lost my sight. I was. But somehow the only time I used my …
Walking on my own across the road to my neighbours house should be simple, right? I mean, it’s less than 10 metres. So, it should be easy. Well yes, it should. But I’ve never done it At least, not before my second Orientation and Mobility lesson with Golden Dzapasi, of the Cape Town Society for …
There I was, guiding mom through the busy crowds at the V&A Waterfront when I got such a fright I almost tripped over my own paws. Which never happens… well, apart from that time I got startled by a bicycle changing gears right behind me and landed up splayed on the floor completely unintentionally. The …
Sometimes I’d love to be able to read Fiji’s mind. Like when we were 40 metres above the ground on the Cape Wheel carousel in the V&A Waterfront. I wasn’t sure how Fiji would react to being sealed into a fairly small compartment and then seeing the world disappear from beneath her paws. To be …
Have you ever realized there’s a better way of doing something you’ve been doing routinely for years? There’s one room in my home that I avoid. It’s a fairly large, open space and, although I’ve lived in the house for years, I’ve always shied away from crossing that room. At least there is an alternative, …
A few days ago, I had two meetings at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. For various reasons that aren’t relevant to this post, I wasn’t able to take my guide dog Fiji with me. Instead I used my white mobility cane. I have many blind and visually impaired friends who prefer to use a …