Let there be light! Thank god for advances in medical technology. Cataract surgery–as we know it– came into being some 3 decades ago. Prior to that, people lost their eyesight more frequently. Think of all the great people who might have benefited from this procedure in the past: Milton, Helen Keller, Homer, et al.
The recovery period after surgery is particularly illuminating with extra flashes of light at the edges here and there. My two procedures made me more conscious of and grateful for light and its attendant powers and aspects. Even something like the stars on our house’s downstairs ceilings were more vivid. In a strange way, the surgeries also led to many epiphanies about self.