Seeing The World Through My Wife's Eyes | With David Oyelowo

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"Selma" star David Oyelowo reads an essay about a blind man navigating his marriage.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:12.0	From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:22.0	Stories of Love, Lost and Redemption.
0:26.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
0:30.0	The New York Times and WBUR Boston, the New York Times and WBUR Boston,
0:34.0	Ryan Knighton and his wife Tracy have been together for 20 years.
0:38.0	He's blind now, but in the beginning, when Ryan was still cited,
0:42.0	he made a point of storing away a memory of Tracy's face.
0:46.0	How he deals with everything else is another story.
0:50.0	David O'Yellow, known for his award-winning portrayal of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
0:54.0	in the Oscar-nominated film Selma, reads Ryan Knighton's essay,
0:58.0	Seeing the World Through My Wife's Eyes.
1:02.0	My birthday is a conflicted 24 hours.
1:06.0	While I'm more than happy to bumble about this life looking for whatever it is we look for,
1:12.0	my birthday also happens to mark a second beginning.
1:16.0	The morning I turned 18, I was told I was going blind.
1:22.0	My doctor said the twilight would dim for another five, maybe 10 years, then, well, poof.
1:34.0	Now, as someone for whom the lights have gone out,
1:38.0	I puzzle over our zeal for blowing out candles on cakes.
1:44.0	Sighted folks get off on the strangest rituals.
1:48.0	Not that I'm party-pooping at my own bash.
1:51.0	Other causes for celebration.
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