if you see me

Please remember this...if you see me.  I cannot see your face unless I am up really close to you.  I can recognize your voice and see a silhouette of sorts but not really any features.  This is what happens when you have macular degeneration.  If I see you out and don't speak but we know each other, let me know.  I am not ignoring you I just can't  recognize you.  I thank the good Lord every day for the ability to get out of bed and live life ro the fullest.  At 70 I see the end of the tunnel!

And so, I have revised my bucket list to make it shorter.  I want to experience the beach one.more.time.  Just guide my sight impaired old self down to the water's edge and set me up with an umbrella.  I would dearly love to see our country returned to the honorable state of an ally for peace.  That's a shortening of the phrase "world peace" and we are not doing our part.  I would like to see some bands that I missed back in the day....The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers, etc.etc.  James Taylor just one more time.  I could not handle it now without a whole lot of help but I would be thrilled to raft the Ocoee River again. I have never visited my brother and his family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.  That would be a dream come true.  Reaves will graduate from high school when I am 80.  I would seriously adore watching that happen...with honors because she is awesome.  

Life is short here on mother earth.  Not realizing that is one of the biggest mistakes I ever made.  Now I take nothing for granted.  What my daddy told me is true, in that the older you get the faster it goes.  And the more you appreciate blessings.  

Happy birthday eve eve eve to Baby Jesus ^j^