Sensory Delights and Medicine of the Small, Sweet & Subtle
A list to come back to again and again. What small, passing moments sweeten your day and fortify you in these wild times?
I wrote the list below last summer and I keep adding to it in my Notes app. Some new additions: hearing the beat of hummingbird wings before I see them; a cold strawberry cooling my tongue after a very hot-saucy bite; a tiny bit of almond extract and maple in my oat milk & coffee; eye-gazing with my pup before anything else in the morning.
Whipped cream dollops of datura flowers, always. With just a night to invoke awe, they get straight to holy work.
The pleasure of licking my plate clean after meals made at home.
Teeth tearing mango flesh off the pit over the kitchen sink. My now-favorite-way to eat my now-favorite-fruit.
Forgetting what fruit I most favored before it because I just love mango that much.
Taking a moment (or plenty) to trip out on textures.
The transformative power of a couple grains of salt. A squeeze of lime. One good sleep. This new day.
The warming of trust; bringing movement and sensation back to places hurt numbed, stalled and walled.
Cutting words from magazines to make poems. The wonder/wisdom of re-storying.
Trusting that beautiful things do persist and will blossom into a haven in this hardened world; lovingly naming them as they do.