Shel Graves' Sensorium

Taste: bitter green tea Sight: puffed apricot ambrosia sky Touch: honey sticky fingers Sound: Koto - national instrument of Japan Smell: spice wine and cork Extra: "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." — Albert Einstein; "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." — Mohandas K. Gandhi "...it's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry." — Lavinia , Ursula K. LeGuin

Taste: Moroccan mint green tea — his favorite tea; rhubarb Sight: red-winged Blackbird; Night Life, Flaming Parrot, Black Diamond — types of tulips Touch: fingers to the floor reestablishing our connection to the earth; on tiptoe; doing headstands Sound: Eyjafjallajokull; strumming Smell: Almond, Coconut, Lychee, Orchid, Sandalwood, White Chocolate, Esther, Sweet Anthem ; lilac Extra: "Just don't think about it." mindfulness meditation — observing the mind without judgment; time nebulae; expressing gratitude — a good Earth day

Taste: carrot cake Sight: approaching twilight, the dimming of the sky Touch: arms folded beneath my head Sound: Assemblage 23 , Compass , "Collapse," "Alive," "Impermanence;" Cats ,"Memories" Smell: Absinthe, Chocolate, Cognac, Gardenia, Musk, Patchouli, Pear, Vetiver: "Molly," Sweet Anthem ; Champa absolute, Civet, Dogwood, Fresh Snow, Green Tea, Honeysuckle, White Patchouli: "Anatasia," Sweet Anthem ; cloves, basil, mint Extra: A chosen word