Shel Graves' Sensorium

Taste: champagne and Cointreau Sight: healing cobalt blue; pink quartz; rainbow shoes, red, raw scuffed ankles, pale, white legs, a flower-patterned (red, blue, green) poufy skirt, a red lace top, a gray half-sweater, a blue water bottle, a pink notebook, a faded purplish backpack with a cartoon donkey Touch: a fuzzy sweater; holding hands Sound: evolutionary emergence; haelen (healing); compassion and intentionality; Aine Minougue , Celtic Lamentations Smell: lavender, vanilla cookies Extra: "But the waist of my greatest love is of the earth, and the future is earth, all things are earth." "The Music," Neruda; "We have life in our hands. We don't need anything else but our hands and our compassion." — Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes

Taste: butterscotch Sight: on arrival, a double rainbow; dust storm at night; "When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?" — George Carlin; silver glitter Touch: talc hands; there was a groove worn in the bed of his shoulder where he carried the stick Sound: Q: "Is there anything more you could do to distinguish yourselves?" A: Yes.; S: "Hey, Major Tom!" M: "I turn around and there's this guy in a tutu with his dick hanging out...Served with him in Desert Storm."; after a passionate kiss: Q:"What's your name?" Smell: sage; the boy he smells like bubblegum Extra: "A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace." — Alfred North Whitehead; "We are mad in a very different way." — Max Ernst; quotes at the opening of Part 2 of Pat Murphy's "The City, Not Long After";