LESSONS IN TOUCH: Exploring the Haptics of Intimacy Can you reach out and touch the world afresh? Can you bring objects far away directly to your breast? Can you touch a fading flower, then imagine it back in time, sensing when its petals first opened and blossoms were in their prime? When a breeze touches your skin, can you sense how it started, and where it will go? Can you read the cipher of our world and sense its shifting flow? If so, are you not amazed by the miracles we undergo? Orapan: (scratching her forehead) Can you understand this stuff? Noel: Nope. Love is a foreign language to me. Tara: (laughing) Isn't it actually a universal language with many dialects? ===================================================================================== from Celebrations ah Song: Rejoicing Through Art, Poetry & Narratives with T Newfields SUMMARY: A poem about the value of touch and essentially vapid conversation. KEYWORDS: healing touch, tactile awareness, touch therapy Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 1991 in Shizuoka, Japan ✶ Finished: 2022 in Shizuoka, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/Celebrations/flaring.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/Celebrations/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/Celebrations/gmed.htm TRANSLATIONS DEUTSCH: https://www.tnewfields.info/de/lekt.htm ESPAÑOL: https://www.tnewfields.info/es/lec.htm FRANÇAIS: https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/lc.htm NIHONGO: https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/kaina.htm