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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 207 theatre and see "Desert Song" ~ that's Sigmund Romberg, you know. I've seen it before, too, but I enjoy the music." The adjustments that must be made to living in darkness are overwhelming. Simple ordinary things, like pouring orange juice into a cup at breakfast and dialing the telephone, must take on unimagined difficulty. To move about with confidence must be a monumental achievement. To have the satisfaction of saying, I have overcome this black enemy, I've beaten it, must be the supreme victory. Perhaps the hand and the ear are more sensitive than the eye. It may be that there are greater joys of touch and sound than 'sighted' people know. Helen Keller, unable to see or hear once wrote, "Everything has its wonders - even darkness and silence, and I learn therein to be content." Harry leans forward and listens with wide eyes as I read aloud part of Miss Keller's book: "Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate. Beyond there is light and music, but I may not enter. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile, and whispers, "There is joy in self-forget fulness. ' So I try to make the light in other's eyes my sun. . .the smile on other's lips my happiness." |