MEMOIR | ART | PENCIL DRAWING | VISION LOSS
Learning to Draw While Losing My Sight
Why did I wait so long and why bother?
I’ve always had an art and music type of brain. As a child and teen, music was my worry-free zone. While listening to and also playing music, I felt creative and grounded.
On the art side, I loved calligraphy and beautiful cursive, which is essentially calligraphy, but I didn’t pursue art as I did music — my first love.
I was a bit of an unconventional kid; my childhood in a sentence would be:
I didn’t care that I was a weird kid, my friends were also weird, my parents were strict yet loving, and home was safe.
Looking back, I’m grateful.
During my first three decades of adulthood, I raised my kids, worked to keep my little family cared for, got married, then unmarried, married again, and retired from my career.
Then when the kids all left the nest, I looked in the mirror and asked myself, who am I, really?
I only half-heartedly loved my career and my glory days of music were better kept as fond memories than times to try and recapture.
I still had my piano, which wouldn’t require sight. I mention sight because I’d…
