Sense — Tyler Thompson, LMFT, LPCC

5+ senses

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There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

—Linda Grayson

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Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.

—Simon & Garfunkel

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At the tip of the tongue, we taste sweet things; bitter things at the back; sour things at the sides; and salty things spread over the surface, but mainly up front. The tongue is like a kingdom divided into principalities according to sensory talent. It would be as if all those who could see lived to the east, those who could hear lived to the west, those who could taste lived to the south, and those who could touch lived to the north. A flavor traveling through this kingdom is not recognized in the same way in any two places.

· Language is steeped in metaphors of touch. We call our emotions feelings, and we care most deeply when something “touches” us. Problems can be thorny, ticklish, sticky, or need to be handled with kid gloves. Touchy people, especially if they’re coarse, really get on our nerves.

—Diane Ackerman

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Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

—Helen Keller

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They are excessively warm hands, that continually want to cool themselves and involuntarily lay themselves on any cold object, outspread, with air between the fingers.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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I shut my eyes
and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes
and all is born again.

―Sylvia Plath

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I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

―Louis Armstrong

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I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls

—Paul Simon

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The only other sound’s the sweep
of easy wind and downy flake.