Losing eye sight

ARMD

Age-Related Macular Degeneration Is something I am dealing with and trying to starve it off as long as I can. Here's a site to explain what is happening to me. Eye Institute The Photo on the bottom is similar to the vision I have in my left eye, but I also had a torn retina back in the 60's My right is has a few blind spots that act like distortions and makes it hard to read. It's frustrating to say the least but I am thankful for the vision I do have and now with both cataracts taken off I feel pretty good. I take good eye vitamins and now try to wear my glasses all the time to protect my eyes from UV which is said to promote the ARMD. Smoking all those year ago (I quit 20 years ago) did a lot of damage also. It seems that smoking is link to the disease.

Well the point I want to make here is although I can not spell very good, thank God for spell check and I miss things because of the bad vision , I still want to write and express myself. To have a passion to write or anything for that matter and to not go for it is wrong. Limited as I may be in grammar etc. I won't let that stop me from the desire to communicate. Many of you that know me know also I like to talk. I don't think that I have to rule the whole conversation and in fact I think I am a pretty good listener. Well maybe a fair listener. So here I am writing and sharing and venting. I hope that some of what I shared here about eye health will help someone and maybe encourage someone to have their eyes checked. It's a wonderful colorful world out there that God has created and more and more I stop and stare at the trees, animals, clouds. and people at how wonderful and marvelous they are all created.

Choice?

We know that the Democratic Party stands for choice when it comes to abortion but where does it stand on other Choice issues. Because I never hear any democrat or liberal politician speak up against some of the issue of today: like displaying the flag, displaying the cross, school or public prayer I assume that they side with and support organizations like the ACLU and other such left wingers. I don't like to think that every Democrat supports such "political correctness" kind of issues, but since they align themselves with the left that makes them supporters in my mind. Recent item of concern to me Flag decal on fireman's locker. This is unbelievable but it is getting harder and harder to let these things upset me, and maybe you. Is someone trying to harden our sensibilities? If not on purpose it is still doing it. I worry about the younger generation that they will become immune to the sabotage of our rights and ways that they will not recognize that their freedoms are historic foundational ways are gone. I hope I don't get in trouble for waving the flag at the top of this post. Someday it maybe an offense to do so.

Fox News and the Administration

Fox News and the Administration is in the news lately and has been a subject for quite a while. I don't know if it's just me

,but this is so out of place in America that it is hard for me think that it is actually happening. Isn't it scary when the President

tries to influence other news outlets and the people against one news organization just because it challenges him and his

policies? When or where in American history has a President or Administration gone so far out as to try to censor a single

news corporation? This is the tactic of dictators and the like and has happened in countries we all can recall from history.

I am counting this as one of the signs that often leads to loss of freedoms and the government doing everything for you

including thinking. If this doesn't alarm you, well then maybe I am just over reacting. This is me and this is the way I see it

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First Posting

I have two other blogs, one about Navy Photographers and the other about my old High School. I have found that a lot of my everyday thoughts, concerns, photographs, etc. don't fit into either one of those blogs so I started this one to voice my opinions, jokes, movies, and frustrations. So is anyone listening? If so I guess this may be a test of my freedom of speech. I do not set out to argue (I hate arguments) or to offend any person, party, religion, race or any company or institution. I only wish to vent and share and hope that in so doing awareness happens and maybe change that can help people. After all if it isn't about people than what is it about?