I’ve now had quite a response on bedpans. Who knew there was so much change, creativity, and adaptation in the modern world, so that women can enjoy an easier time eliminating when bedridden.

All of this has brought me back to the words and inspiration of Jacques Lusseyran. Blinded at the age of 7, he didn’t slow down and at 17 became a leader in the French Resistance against Nazi Germany’s occupation of France in 1941.  His book And There Was Light is a gift to be re-read over and over.  From the book: 

“I began to look more closely, not at things but at a world closer to myself, looking from an inner place to one further within, instead of clinging to the movement of sight toward the world outside.”  

“Immediately the substance of the universe drew together, redefined and peopled itself anew.  I was aware of a radiance emanating from a place I knew nothing about, a place which might as well have been outside me as within.  But radiance was there, or, to put it more precisely, light. It was a fact, for light was there.”

Light and joy are one for him. If he loses one, he loses the other.  May we all bathe in the element of light, especially now as we resist what’s happening under Trump’s illegal, criminal, and unconstitutional regime.  It’s about how we meet what comes.

As Elsa Gindler said: “A person can get heart disease by climbing a mountain, but can also get rid of heart disease by climbing a mountain.  It depends on how you climb.”