We, all of us, were born with 5 (or 6) senses. smell, touch, taste, sight, sound, and for some of us more evolved than the rest empathy. These senses are keyed into our evolution they helped to keeps us from eating bad things (like poison) and helped us to survive over several hundreds of thousands of years. Beyond mere survival, they have helped to create some of the most amazing testaments to what is good and right about humanity, they define us, they shape who we are both culturally and individually. Without taste we'd eat bad things...(not that some of us don't anyway), without sight we'd never create amazing works of art or zen gardens...(ok I do know of many blind artists), without sound how would we know when to get up in the morning? or how to appreciate Stairway to Heaven? without touch would we be able to procreate as a species? What would a world be without smell? And without empathy would we ever care about the world around us?
This blog is mostly just a way for me to share with the world my adventures with these 5 (6) senses...to explore what it means to be human.
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