Zócalo Public Squareblindness – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Night Blind https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/12/02/night-blind/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/12/02/night-blind/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:01:11 +0000 By Rebecca Norris Webb https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=81797 One night, driving along Blue River Road, I’m startled and disoriented by the shock of headlights coming up over a hill. When you’re night blind like me, the vision blurs, and in that moment before clarity returns, you see only edges of images—here, a road sign; there, a sycamore—and feel suspended, not quite yourself, not quite alone.

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