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I used to think mindfulness meant learning to accept things exactly as they are. Losing sight complicated that idea. There is a difference between accepting the reality of vision loss and accepting a world that unnecessarily excludes people. Trying to cross a busy intersection as a blind person can be a perfect place to notice…

I didn’t set out to write a book.I set out to make sense of what was happening to me. The idea for a book came later, after I realised that what I was losing wasn’t only sight. I was losing certainty.Identity.All those quiet assumptions about how my life would unfold. People talk about vision loss…