{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Here's Looking At You","description":"I am not saying I am competitive, but I was 48 when it happened.   He was 50.   By \u201cit\u201d \u2013 I mean having to buy reading glasses.   By \u201chim\u201d \u2013 I mean my Dad.   The optometrist handled me well. I told him that I was there to confirm I did not need glasses.    He appropriately and politely ignored me while conducting the exam.   The journey from non-spectacled to bespectacled took less than 30 minutes and did not in fact kill me.   And so, on July 9th 2019 my denial - that my eyes need help reading the newspaper on Sundays - came to an end.   For most of my life, my eyes were superbly sharp. And so, I saw myself as person who would never need glasses.   Now, I can see how silly my complaints about \u201cpoor lighting\u201d and my smug attitude of invincibility look.   But, there was an unforeseen gift in the transition this week   As a dyslexic, my typos are legendary in number and the degree of embarrassment they have caused me.    But from now on, if you see something amiss in my writing \u2013 it\u2019s probably because I forgot my glasses.   Here\u2019s looking at you.   ","author_name":"A Well Run Life","author_url":"http:\/\/awellrunlife.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"