Nonfiction Published in Five on the Fifth

 

     My nonfiction story about my experience as a blind woman exploring Zion National Park has been published in Five on the Fifth, Volume 2, Issue 12.  Here is the opening paragraph:

 

Opening Up My World

 

     Ravines, steep cliffs, and toe-gripping trails are not the typical obstacles people with a visual-impairment are taught to deal with.  I didn’t care.  With a prosthetic right eye, and only peripheral vision in my left eye, I explored Zion National Park using my other senses.  Whether walking in the valley, or hiking on a trail cut into a canyon wall, a deep and prolonged silence surrounded me.  With the silence came a stillness that soothed my soul.  When my vision started to erode, my life as an accountant flittered away.  When I lost the better of the two eyes to an infection, my life as an academic became untenable.  Because of my blindness, the world around me shrank.  But here, in this place, my world opened up again.

 

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