Dr. Gesundheit:
We were at one of our most challenging facilities. T, who was born blind was sitting alone and carrying a printed Bible. I told her it was an unusual purple Bible and she asked us to describe purple to her. How to describe a color to a blind person? Pam told T her Bible was the color of grape juice or grape jelly. I told her purple was also the color of eggplants and royalty. She went through all the colors. Green is the smell of freshly cut grass in the spring- green is the color of a lime and crisp lettuce. She was totally delighted. I told T. that she was the deep brown color of a dark chocolate cake. “Chocolate? Praise the Lord. Thank you, Jesus, I love chocolate. I love German Chocolate Cake most of all.” I told T that her beautiful cropped short white curly hair was like coconut frosting on the Chocolate Cake. Her smile and pride and tearful joy in all of this was one of the best moments we’ve experienced.