Have you ever had one of those clothing labels that just feel itchy and irritating? So much so that you have to remove it? Now imagine they all felt like that. Imagine you could feel the touch of a single hair landing on your arm like it was a big spider crawling across your skin. If you can imagine that, …
Smell
My sense of smell is neither very good nor is it very bad, in the traditional sense of the word. It is more like it is very sensitive. It’s like the smells I encounter just demand more of my attention then it does for others. You might know the feeling of meeting a friend, who just had a cigarette a …
Hearing
My memories of my grandmother are always of her playing the piano in a deep sense of cigarette smoke. The clear tones from her fingers touching the keys, the intense focus with which she played, as if lost in a world of her own creation. And of course, her shouting from the other end of the house whenever I, as …