Breaking The Vision Barrier
How One Woman Invented The Future She Saw For Herself
For as long as she lives Denise Drace-Brownell will never forget the day she saw—really saw—Central Park for the first time. It was a chilly, clear autumn day, the kind of day a Woody Allen character might have dreamed up. At her optometrist’s Manhattan office, Denise was picking up a pair of sporting glasses that were sturdy enough to wear when she played squash. After issuing strong complaints, she had been prescribed single-distance vision glasses with prism lenses. The moment she put them on, a world she had never known suddenly snapped into focus. Read more