I feel like I have been cheating a bit, not having actually written a blog post this year, but tomorrow that will change.
For today, I want to share an essay I wrote that was accepted last year and came out today. The Furious Gazelle is a great online magazine that has been very good to me; they have published 3 of my poems and 2 essays.
This essay is a really old one that I dusted off and fixed up and I am thrilled that Furious Gazelle chose to publish it. It is called, “Shake a Leg”
Stories From the Edge of Blindness 
January 6, 2018 at 9:27 am
Just as I suspected it would be, your essay was yet another example of your extraordinary talent and beautiful soul. You can see beauty where most do not, and for that, I utterly adore you. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we all could exist without inhibition, take joy in the small things and dance our way through our days without a single care in the world just as he did? It would be a whole new world indeed. So brilliantly written, Susan!
January 6, 2018 at 9:49 am
Thanks Tanya!!! He was really amazing; so completely blissed out. I am so glad that you got how I saw him. He was unforgettable.
January 6, 2018 at 9:34 am
You express so beautifully that the words just show me everything in my imagination. Thanks
January 6, 2018 at 9:51 am
Thank you!!!! He really was so happy and excited. It happened a long time ago, but I never forgot him.
January 18, 2018 at 4:18 pm
We often think, when we “normals” are confronted with people like ‘him’ that his reality is a travesty – a symptom of some larger disease for which we should be thankful we have not contracted. Yet, as you illustrate here, everything is and can be an illusion. Well done!
January 19, 2018 at 6:04 am
Thank you Dylan!