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High Holidays:
Changing Your Vision
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ike many people, I am al-
ways both trying to change
and avoiding change as
much as I can. The con-
stant tug between improvement
and cherished routine makes me
feel like Dr. Doolittle's two-head-
ed horse, the pushmi-pullyu, for-
ever charging off in two directions
at once.
I long to be calmer, thinner,
better organized, less flustered,
all together far more marvelous.
Yet, I nonetheless find it hard to
alter my pace, my chocolate
urges, my clutter, my anxieties,
and my general not-so-mar-
velousness.
Into that all too human mix
comes the annual slow-down-
and-pick-a-real-direction holiday,
Rosh Hashanah, the New Year,
the time for new directions and
goals.
The word "shanah", as in Rosh
Hashanah, means — among oth-
er things — change, the in-
evitable upsetting of the status
quo, the only yellow brick road to
betterment.
I know already that I cannot
change all my icks and iggles, in
one fell swoop (or as we say in our
malaprop-loving family, one swell
foop). But I think I have identi-
fied the one thing I must change,
and my Mom helped me do that.
I have to change how I see
things. In the New Year, I hope
I can see the long range goal, not
the short range ease. I want to fo-
cus on the reason, not the rush;
on the idea of health, not the
thrill of ice cream; on purpose-
fully raising my children instead
of just getting them to be quiet
right now, or else. I have to
change my sights, shift my vision.
And that's what Mom did, lit-
erally. She goes a long way to set
an example, my mother.
Mom has always been a
woman of insight, but until re-
cently she was no longer a
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woman of vision. Over the last
three or four years, Mother's
cataracts ripened very slowly,
stealing her distance vision, then
her ability to do needlepoint, then
her capacity to read any but ex-
tra-large print, even with thick
glasses.
At long last, the cataracts were
ripe enough to be removed. The
removal is an outpatient proce-
dure, done one eye at a time with
a rest of eight weeks between the
first and the second.
The hospital is more than a
half hour from my parents' home.
To avoid the drive, they spent the
nights before and after Mom's
first cataract removal at the
beautiful lakeside home of their
friend, Jane Eve, who lives near
the hospital.
The evening before the proce-
dure, Mom and Dad sat on Jane
Eve's back porch looking over the
dark water. Mother caught the
faint flicker of distant lights and
asked, "Is that a bridge way out
there?"
"Yes," Jane Eve answered,
"That's the Dawsonville bridge."
The next night, the first
cataract gone, Mother sat on the
same porch, saw the bridge sil-
houetted clearly against the sky,
and counted the cars as they
zoomed across the lake, her vi-
sion clouded only by her tears.
Eight weeks later, the second
cataract was removed.
In the words of the song, she
can see clearly now .
And so can I, now that she's
opened her eyes—and mine for
the New Year. Her brave steps
back into vision made me think:
if only we could repair our inner
spiritual eyes the way my moth-
er's surgeon repaired her physi-
cal eyes.
In my case — and take from it
whatever serves you — I already
have the physical ability to see
clearly (if RI just clean my glass-
es). I need the spiritual ability to
see clearly, as well. I need to see
the distance, to envision the fu-
ture I hope for, to spend my en-
ergy on things that matter, to hug
longer and cook shorter, to read
more and worry less, to change
with Rosh Hashanah in a tangi-
ble way, to dare consciously to af-
fect my own life, with my own
vision.
The musical Godspell, while
not a Jewish piece, has a won-
derful song that prays to "see
Thee more clearly, day by day."
If I can do that with my Rosh
Hashanah vision, with my
heightened insight, then every-
thing else I want to see — and
change — becomes possible.
Here's wishing you the same.
L'Shana Tova.