This slide show was made from photographs of a week-end I spent in isolation preparing myself for serious and risky eye surgery. The surgery was on Tuesday and my doctor warned me that it was extremely bold and  risky. He wanted to make sure I understood that there was a possibility that I would never see again after that day. As always, I said "Let's do it anyway. Make sure you get a good night's sleep. okay? " He smiled big and set it up. Yep...bold and risky...that's me. Not true. You can't even imagine how alone and bleak it felt at times. It's been so scary in this battle with blindness . Not knowing each morning if you will see the sun coming up but bearing inside this wonderful expectancy that few have. Somehow sprinkley magic permeates the air.

I spent three days alone at a friend's chalet on Lake Lanier with the dog. I woke up in the dark and made my way down the steep hill to the dock where the old boat sat. The boat that looked just like the one my father took me out on when I was a young girl. This  slide show is a visual of the gift I was given that morning. Jump wholeheartedly into the moment and tell me if you feel the magic or tell me I am crazy. Perhaps it will be a gift to someone else out there who is facing fear or despair in it's face.

Eckhart Tolle wrote  about  these kind of moments.

"On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consists of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not “this moment?”
This one moment — Now — the only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens, no matter how much your life changes, one thing is certain: it's always Now.
Since there is no escape from the Now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it?"

always...Julieann...always

BTW...bold and risky pay off most of the time because you really have to believe with all your heart and mind. Being in the belief mode is a powerful healer.