Shel Graves' Sensorium

Taste: green mango; walnut, date, cinnamon Sight: green eyes, black and white splotches, polished white paws — a wise cat; a lawn of dried green refuse on the refrigerator floor — a vegan frig; typewriters; Norse queens and polar bears -  Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration Sound: steam sounds: a train whistle, the creak and bellow of a logging truck headed out for the day Touch: soft, fuzzy ears; felt, fleece Smell:  cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves Extra: "Death is Nature's remedy for all things, and why not Legislation's?" Charles Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities"; mindfulness, impermanence; social anhedonia (a preference for solitary activities—Emily Dickinson, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton, for example, favored work over socializing) — The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People are Eccentric ; easily influenced; "The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Chris...

Taste: chocolate, toasted coconut, acidic red wine Sight: flambe — brandy afire in vegan saganaki; Queen Happy, Queen Vinyl, Queen Marzipan ; purple kale, yellow bell pepper, red grape tomatoes, pale green cucumber, brown sesame seeds Sound:  " It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Fish-men " Touch: rhythmical typing — tap, tap, tap Smell: plumeria, pine Extra:  Heroes — compassionate men with the last name farmer — Gene Baur and Paul Farmer — and wise women writers Margaret Atwood, Carol Emshwiller, and Ursula K. LeGuin Grateful for:  two dogs on lap

  Taste: vegan, gluten-free pumpkin pie Wheatless in Seattle: gingersnap crust ; Flying Apron : sweetest, best warm spicy pumpkin avocado w/ maple syrup; pumpkin coconut milk w/ maple syrup: best pumpkin flavor; pecan and date crust and coconut cream whip Sight: Payton the turkey and live streaming turkeys on Thanksgiving morning, Farm Sanctuary Sound: Straftanz , punishing German dance Touch: numb right hand, chilled hands and feet Smell: vanilla patchouli Extra:  a cult-like following, chanting Gratitude:  quantities and varieties of plentiful food