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Sensorium Friday: Lingering thoughts

Taste: Kung Pao Sound: cat purring; kirtan chanting Sight: Lily lying flat; his face Touch: a paw Smell: lingering incense Intellect, ideas, and dreams: evening meditations, rituals
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Sensorium End of Year: Best of 2025

While I didn't do as much journaling this year the senses I recorded were standouts. Memories include the Solarpunk party and solar UFO, my solarpunk books on the shelves of We Be Bookin’ library, the French student's art project, lovely clients with matching names Leo, Theo and Luna, Runa, and some fun concerts in Everett Coffin Break and Lene Lovich.  Taste of the year: biscuits and gravy Morning Glory Cafe and Bayside Cafe Sounds of the year: a din of friends; orchestral and choir music - what we create together in community Smells of the year: pine, sea air  Sight of the year: the California Coast; blue seas, golden beaches  Touch of the year: swimming on NYE (last year and this) Intellect, ideas, and dreams: Totally Awesome Game Weekend and Stanford Inn by the Sea --canoeing with dogs  Quotes of the year:  “We are creatures built for joy. At the very saddest of funerals, we can hear a funny story about our lost beloved, and, God help us, we laugh. We ...

Sensorium Saturday: UFOs

Taste: coconut curry, jalapeno pizza, raspberry chocolate Sound: barking, howling, hissing; punk rock  Smell: hairspray; pitch black and a flashlight  Sight:  a solar-powered UFO Touch: wires; soft fur  Intellect, ideas, and dreams: "The Grief of the Pasha," an 1885 painting by Jean-Leon Gerome; dreams of vertical space and ladders and walking in the darkness but finding a light "I give thanks for the wise qualities of the evergreen trees that have stood by me this day: may you show my show my own heart can be evergreen and growing through winters of doubt and darkness." — Caitlin Matthews  Grateful for: directions and driving safely through the rainy night; padding

Sensorium Saturday: A heart, a nightingale, flooding emotions, Lorca

Taste: cranberry spice Sound: Coffin Break Smell: patchouli Sight: curly fur; pink belly; lights reflecting on farmland (flooding) night view Touch: wires; soft fur  Intellect, ideas, and dreams: "In the green morning / I wanted to be a heart. / A heart." Federico Garcia Lorca, "Ditty of First Desire”; frustration; nostalgia Grateful for: poetry, nature, dog on lap, Sam, new experiences