My beautiful butterfly: Josafine

Not sure how I came up with this name for our little beauty but this is what she is. I cannot see her as she flies around but I can picture her in my mind.

She is all white.  She flies around Mom’s patio without any fear.  She flies around us as we sit on the patio in the  morning.

Of course she is silent but it is enough to know that she is near. Mom and I are always only too pleased to welcome her and Mom describes her every movement as she traverses the patio.

That’s my beautiful Josafine!

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Not very pleasant: Bees and wasps around the table

 

This is probably one of the biggest concerns for me whenever I venture to dine outdoors.  First of all, those wasps do not make a sound when they approach and if you are unlucky to get in their way then you’ll only know of their presence when they sting you.

In the case of the bees, you may have time to duck out of their way if you hear them coming but this is not very easy to avoid.  

The sting of a bee is almost as painful as that of a wasp.  The one thing that I have noticed is that if you decide to confront a wasp, somehow they manage to alert their friends to come to their assistance.  Not so with a bee.

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Go away please! Those bothersome wasps

The irritating thing about these bothersome little things is that, as a vision-impaired person, you never know when they are around until they actually sting you. However, for someone with sight, it is almost the same if a sighted person does not see them in time.

Wasps do not make any noise when they come near you. They are what I call the silent stingers and boy do they ever sting hard! Their sting can even cause one to get a slight fever.

I often wonder what is their purpose in our world, but then again!

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One of my greatest fears: Crawling insects

For as long as I can remember, I have always been petrified of crawling insects and, as a vision-impaired person, I often use my imagination to deal with these little things.

Even when I had enough vision to see them, they were simply a threat to my sanity.  More often than not, I allow my imagination to take control of the situation and I can be accused of enlarging their true images.

In 2019, when Mom and I spent our annual vacation in Saint Lucia, I woke up one morning to her telling me that she had found a crawling bug on the floor close to our front door.  Immediately, my defence mechanism went way up and I found myself walking gingerly around in my slippers.

It did not matter that she had told me that she had killed the poor crawling thing. I continued to have visions of stepping on a crawling thing and having it bite me.

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A special childhood memory: Candleflies around me

I could never really tell that they were, indeed, around me so I had to take the word of my brothers and cousins. They usually came out at night and they lived at the seaside.  

We would venture outdoors and walk in the fresh cool air of the night and then they would come. They would emit lights of various colours. That is, they would seem to light up as they flew but if you caught them and put them in a container they would not light up. So everyone had to be content to simply admire them as they flew around.  

For me, it meant using my imagination to help me admire them. I had to depend on the descriptions given to me by my parents, brothers, and cousins.  My granny would often go into great detail to describe their presence to me because she knew how much I loved them. I would always be smiling whenever anyone, especially Granny, would describe them to me.

Candleflies were not your ordinary fruit flies! No, they were like little treasures in the night! Graceful, elegant, and beautiful! They were not afraid to mingle among us and they were always so ready to show off their presence!

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Funny and humorous: The mystery of the tamarind seeds

I can tell you that this specific experience still gives me a chuckle each time I think about it.  I'll do my best here to reproduce it.

I had just finished eating a tamarind ball and had gathered the seeds in my hand but then I was too lazy to leave my chair and put them in the garbage.

Soon enough I was falling asleep in my chair and I must have put my clenched hand with the seeds in it close to my left cheek.  Some time later I woke up and felt something on my cheek.

I brushed them away and my first reaction was that they were some kind of insect.  So what did I do?  I called for Mom's help and soon enough she solved the mystery!

No insect!  Just the tamarind seeds that fell out of my clenched hand and onto my cheek.  I woke up to feel them and brushed them away! My smile for the day!

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Not my favorite moments: Bees around me

This is what happened several times during the late summer of 2017.  First I would be walking along, and then!  Those unwanted bees would come buzzing around me.

The thing is that I never knew that they were there until I was told.  I did not really hear them buzzing and then, when I was told, I simply froze.

There is nothing worse for me than not knowing when these little terrors come near me.  Yes, I realize that they bring us honey, but no!  I simply do not like them coming so close to me!  Especially when I cannot see them approaching!

I really do not appreciate being stung unexpectedly.  However, there is nothing that I can do to fix this!

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