Just Some Thoughts and Stories

I was reading the Michael Morgan article and was interested in the idea of living your life with only one eye. I was Particularly attracted because my great aunt who is 93 years old, has lived most of her adult life with only her right eye. She drove around South Jersey until about five years ago. On a visit we were driving around south jersey and my mom was driving and my aunt was giving her directions. She kept having my mom make right turns. It became obvious to us that we were driving almost in circles and going out of our way. We realized this was because when she was driving she could turn to her right to see but would have to turn her whole head to the left to gather enough information to make a left turn. On the way home my mom drove a more direct way and my aunt was totally lost. She became confused and thought we were heading in the wrong direction. All the little things and traditions she did to compensate became apparent to us. She would move her head slightly to the side to judge depth. One might have never figured out that she strutted a glass eye until she lost it once... but that's another story…

I was listening to the NPR story and I put my finger in front of my face trying to figure out what she meant by "not seeing space". I always cross my eyes and have intrigued by the multiplication of the images I then see. I also cross my eyes knowing how silly I look and love it. I started to see what she meant by not seeing space. It almost felt like taking a picture and focusing on one image while the background appears blurry. The other day I took some pictures playing with my camera and focused on different on parts of the scene. In first picture (below) I focused on my friend who was close to me and the other on the people and landscape in the distance. It seemed to me that Susan saw the world like the first photo with the closest things in focus and the world around out of focus and blurry.