A quick summary of this week's five senses:
Seeing: bright green leaves on a blue sky backdrop…a sparkling clean home (and no, I can’t lay claim to cleaning it…I treated myself!)…a brown eyed child…pink, green and turquoise paints…very, very yellow farm fresh eggs…clinging purple starfish…pink/red/grey dragon fruit. I love this world of amazing colour.
Hearing: summer sunday music in the park…laughter with brown eyed boy as we played hide and seek and he found his papa hiding in bed under the covers...birds complaining about an empty feeder…the ever present cawing of the crows and the what-ever-that-sound-is-called that seagulls make. I love the sounds they made for the seagulls in the movie Finding Nemo.
Smelling: the salty sea air, lavender, lavender and even more lavender (it’s blooming everywhere right now) I wish there were scent links on the internet!
Tasting: those very very yellow, farm fresh eggs…a leisurely lunch with friends…take out sushi…the nutty flavour of almond milk…and even more almond but in dark chocolate…dragon fruit (which is disapointingly tasteless. I wonder what it tastes like tree ripened? Anyone ever had it that way?) and sweet/spicy rich chili.
Feeling: WONDER. A wonder too big for words.
We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
Wishing you a marvelous and heady weekend of truly absorbing life through all of your senses. Blowing kisses...
