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Exploring the World With Your Senses: Touch
By Sandra Lee Schubert | June 3, 2008
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me, heal me, heal me.
~ Pete Townshend, composer of Tommy
Do you remember the first thing you ever touched? Most likely you don’t. Nonetheless when you were young your senses were on fire. Every touch was a new experience. Watch a baby. See how they react to new textures. They are surprised most times. You can see them trying to figure out what it is they are feeling. Even when they touch something they don’t like they are still willing to keep exploring.
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and experience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?” They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller, US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983)
It is important to engage in all our senses as fully as possible. Think of a potter out of touch with her clay. She might create technically correct pieces yet they would lack a certain feeling to them. There is a potter’s work I love. I like to hold her pieces. They have a wonderful feel to them. Each piece seems to have a special energy. Her whole family is involved in her work. Helping create and sell her pottery. Each item in her collection has a feeling of love in it. Wouldn’t each of us want our work to elicit that kind of energy?
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world’s variety and uniqueness.
~ Maya Angelou author & poet (1928 - )
An ordinary thing can be the catalyst for great works of art stimulating the imagination and creating worlds for others to enjoy. As we touch, we feel and we imbue the world with our graces. It is the experience of our everyday life that fuels the muse. Great works come from daily experiences.
© 2008 Sandra Lee Schubert www.writing-for-life.com
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