Six Senses Sunday #44

Touch:
• The textured end papers and smooth ribbon of a new book
• Clingy old cobwebs in the attic eaves where I've been organizing
• Layers of sticky rice plastered on my palms
• Tongue burnt on hot french fries

Taste:
• Sweet Potato casserole topped with pecans sauteed in butter, maple syrup, and fresh ginger
• Marinaded tofu salad: sweet chili and sesame oils, soy sauce, red cabbage, peas, carrots, peanuts and squares of tofu
• An Ethiopian Platter from the Blue House Café. Collards, kale, ginger, lentils, some kind of flat bread, lots of spices...delicious. I am loving being a vegetarian again.
• Soy milk, banana, and chocolate shake
• Almonds and Sea Salt in Dark Chocolate

Hear:
• The muffled crunch of snowshoes in the heavy woods
• The rush of a cold river
• The clattering of rice, many, many pieces of rice, raining down on me at the health food coop. Like a rain stick without the stick. Darn you, overhead bulk goods dispenser!
• Groans as my boss begins to make one of his infamously inappropriate toasts

See:
• A tall, pileated woodpecker chopping away inside an enormous blond hole he'd carved for himself
• Perfect icy snowflakes glittering beneath the outdoor light
• The full moon, catching me by surprise
• Striped trees

Feel
• Nervous when the sky turned dark, the moon rose, and j still wasn't home from the mountain
• Excited about finally starting a series of yoga classes at their very beginning