Shel Graves' Sensorium

Taste: chocolate cake Sight: a digging pit, a bucket brigade Sound: mangel-wurzel; Happy Birthday Touch: gas heater Smell: lemonbalm Quotable:  "I shall be glad of a cup of coffee as soon as possible." "While he was speaking there came a vivid flash of lightening which lit each of them up for the other—and the light seemed to be a terror of a hopeless love." “But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch Extra: mater dolorosa --our lady of sorrows; the end Grateful for: herbs; a project complete A jolt of joy: Girl Scouts

Taste: onions, potato salad Sight : a bird dives into a pile of cottonwood fluff; a bright June day Sound: Selina Touch: cottonwood fluff, softness Smell: tartarian honeysuckle Quotable: "Mercifully grant that we may grow aged together." — Book of Tobit: Marriage Prayer "Nothing could have seemed more irrelevant to Dorothea than insistence on her youth and sex when she was moved to show human fellowship." "The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the light for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character." Extra: her poor lopped life Grateful for: friends birthdays A jolt of joy: pink hair, inked wings

Taste: thin watery wine; lemon cupcakes Sight: bright red blood ; lightening; black wine Sound : thunder Touch: downpour Smell: wisteria Quotable:  "I suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope.";  "People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours." "Only those that know the supremacy of intellectual life—the life which has a seed of enobling thought and purpose within it—can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."  Extra: demesne Grateful for: dogs, co-workers A jolt of joy: an empty calendar