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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.