The Many Ways of Seeing

In desperation, I look up into mum’s face. A small face – a loving face —

And the lights go out. Her face is the last image I will ever see in my lifetime.

Blind since the age of seven, Nick Gleeson has spent his life learning to ‘see’ without seeing.

Growing up in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows, Nick’s young life was defined by touch and smell: learning the shape of each shoe so he knew left from right. Holding the huge, rough hand of his father. Smelling the well-wo...