Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Audiobook2 hours
Positive Vision: Enjoying the Adventures and Advantages of Poor Eyesight
Written by Ken Brandt
Narrated by Ken Brandt, Rob Youl, Gil Tucker and Joyce Agee
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
Author Ken Brandt presents a gloriously positive view of life’s challenges while riding his roller coaster of vision setbacks and improvements. An adventure and humor filled journey that includes: being dragged by galloping horses in Montana, helping firefighters combat an arson blaze, captaining his university parachuting team, and a long convoluted successful chase of a thief in New York City.
Complementing the adventures are amusing and relatable anecdotes demonstrating the advantages of poor eyesight. Good eyesight is clearly better than poor eyesight, but it is fun to appreciate the advantages of poor eyesight, such as: longer life, better balance, and better presentation skills. Enjoying these advantages makes life more fun for you and those around you.
Brandt presents the bright side of his lifetime with poor vision and slightly crossed eyes, sharing how he worked his way through eyeglasses, contact lenses, a detached retina and cataract operation in each eye, two other eye operations, and many years of being legally blind.
Each book purchase helps two great vision causes. Author Ken Brandt is donating 10 percent of his book royalties (5 percent each) to: Massachusetts Eye and Ear, for eye research; and The Fred Hollows Foundation, for ending avoidable blindness.
Everyone with even slightly less than perfect eyesight must be a bit adventurous to do some of the same things routinely done by people with normal eyesight. If you are not there yet, you might be in the future: Many people’s vision deteriorates a bit as they age, pushing them into this adventure zone. Enjoy Ken Brandt’s sneak preview in this memoir.
A rollicking, rambling ripper of a read. Great for anyone who likes adventure, humor, memoirs, and a bit of inspiration.
Related to Positive Vision
Related audiobooks
Wrong Side of the Storm Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ingrid Has Two Dads: My Family Is Normal! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWeathering the Storms: Living with and Understanding Epilepsy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShe Danced with Lightning: My Daughter's Struggle with Epilepsy and Her Boundless Will to Live Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fits and Starts: A Memoir of Living with Epilepsy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Climbing the Walls Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic's Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOutrunning the Night: A Life Journey of Disability, Determination and Joy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMultiple Sclerosis: Understand Your Diagnosis and Live a Healthier Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bipolar II - (Beyond The Unhappy Diagnosis And Into A Happy Life): Informational, Self- Help Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How To Live With MS: Your Step By Step Guide To Living With Multiple Sclerosis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Woman Who Changed her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brave New Humans Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5You've Got Some Nerve Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary, Analysis, and Review of William Paul Young's The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEpilepsy: Live or Die Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow To Live With Lupus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRelentless (Greenleaf): How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Bipolar Backpack Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Have I Cheated Death?: A Short and Merry Life With Cystic Fibrosis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRetinitis Pigmentosa 101: How to Understand, Accept, and Live Your Best Life with Retinitis Pigmentosa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNotes on Blindness: A Journey Through the Dark Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Reasoning No Longer Works: A Practical Guide for Caregivers Dealing with Dementia & Alzheimer's Care Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5ALS Saved My Life…until it didn't Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oxygen Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Personal Memoirs For You
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wishful Drinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scrappy Little Nobody Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Angela's Ashes Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hello, Molly!: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taste: My Life Through Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of the Wreckage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5