LETTER TO LOVED ONES
by ANNA SABA

	Just a few words to let you know I am doing fine.  I wanted to write while I still have some sight and to inform all my loved ones that blindness can be truly a blessing.  I see more than I ever saw.  I have never been so busy in my life.  The indescribable things I discover that I never saw before, or felt.  Of course the adjustments have been difficult, but as I find another way of daily living, it’s becoming fascinating and so very beautiful.  All I am learning is another way of seeing what I didn’t see before,  By feeling I find different shapes, textures and dimensions.  Even an ordinary thing like a door knob excites me, as I never felt it when I was able to see it.  Objects seem to reach out, and I start to think of how and what they are made of.  I have always been a lover of nature, and thought how terrible not to see.  But what is beginning to emerge is compassion for those who know what they lost, while they do not know what could be found.  I am learning to trust my instinct in a different way than before.  So feel tranquil and not frightened.  I love the exercise of finding another sense.