Shel Graves' Sensorium

Taste: tangy Sound: mom’s voice; drizzle; sputtering; shrieking squabbling rats; her alarm bark versus her demand bark Smell: apple cider, maple syrup Sight: redness, swelling; evergreen treetops in sunlight; Mom’s handwriting Touch: stinging, burning, itching; drizzle Intellect, ideas, and dreams: “She waits patiently knowing she will not be forgotten.” “She likes to eat dinner one piece at a time.” Grateful for: calm, calmness, heart center

Taste: apples and bananas Sound: mom’s voice; barking, skittering, flickering  Smell:  cinnamon, cloves, warm spice Sight: redness, swelling; evergreen treetops in sunlight; Mom’s handwriting; monkey tree; a raccoon crawling on the top of the fence at night; a small dog sits alertly on your lap; a bruised leg Touch: stinging, burning, itching; coolness Intellect, ideas, and dreams: “She waits patiently knowing she will not be forgotten.” “She likes to eat dinner one piece at a time.”  Grateful for: calm, calmness, heart center

Taste:  gingergold apple Sound:   “You’re Dead,” by Norma Tanega; a raccoon sneezes; "Sophie!" Smell:  sweet potato Sight: orange; hornets on the white back of a baby dog; the crows flocking to the same tree; blue-grey sky of morning Touch: hornet stings - itch, sting; crisp apple Intellect, ideas, and dreams: numinous- strong religious or spiritual quality  Grateful for: the grey barn owl

Taste: lavender black current  Sound: dryer rolling, churning; candle flame flickering; chopping; sprinkling, crunching Smell:  culinary lavender Sight: orange light; choppy waters; evergreen trees Touch:  making salad, wet greens, chopping, sprinkling, textures, soft, crunchy, firm Intellect, ideas, and dreams: numinous- strong religious or spiritual quality; Owl Meadow; "She says all healing involves acceptance and gratitude for even the most painful times and teachers." --"The seventeenth day after she began chemotherapy, Pisces New Moon," Snowy Owls, Egrets, & Unexpected Graces --Gwendolyn Morgan Grateful for: the sun, the world, and  the moon