In that moment - my first awakening to light - an immense sense of peace flooded my body. I remember that as I pulled myself up to get a better look out the window, a feeling of balance and focus came into my body. It was as though the light was lifting me up, filling me up, taking me to another world that was outside of my body. I was transfixed, enchanted by the light and the tree. Everything was so alive... just like me! Delighted to be sitting up after a very long stretch of darkness, I looked down at my feet and wiggled my toes. I felt so happy to be alive. I started to giggle.
As I sat there, I somehow understood, in the wisdom of my child's mind, that as the light came into my eyes, it also came into my mind. It seemed to help fuse the separate parts of my fragmented consciousness, and make a whole new Me. You see, I had been hit by an automobile early that summer. I had been in my bed, in a semiconscious state, for weeks. As I recovered, I had to learn to walk, talk ,and focus all over again. I was six years old.
I realize now that on that day, a fascinating world of spatial dimension, color, and all kinds of shapes and forms of light energy were opened up for me to see. From that day on, I have been intensely involved in studying the qualities of light and the infinite images that light creates for me.
A very particular vibration of golden light penetrated my consciousness that special day and awakened me to the nature of my perceptions. The memory of that moment when I was 6 when my spirit, soul and mind returned to my body, will forever connect me to the gift of light. The wonder I felt as a child is still with me when I immerse myself in the process of taking a photograph, when I connect to a spontaneous moment of recognition and the unconditional surrender to instinct, intuition, and inner knowing.