Smell, touch, taste, feel your unique and beautiful aliveness

in all this brimming world

☀️ So good to connect with people at our Writing Together live session on Zoom last Saturday and to hear from people catching up with the recording.
This is the third post in our Restorative Writing Season 1, eight weeks of writing invitations, crafted to help you to (re)connect with your creativity and nurture your writing and yourself. You can work privately at your own pace or come along to our Writing Together sessions via Zoom. The next live session is Wed 22 May. ☀️

‘We need to return to feeling the textures of life,’ writes Diane Ackerman, in her introduction to A Natural History of the Senses, which she published in 1990. ‘Much of our experience in twentieth-century America is an effort to get away from those textures, to fade into a stark, simple, solemn, puritanical, all-business routine that doesn’t have anything so unseemly as sensuous zest’ (xvii).

That was in 1990. I think we’re in even greater danger of losing our sens-uosity now.

This week, we’re going to explore ways of returning to our own innate sensuosity, beginning with small moments of smelling, touching, tasting, listening, seeing, which can nurture our bodies and our writing.

Find the text for discussion and the Writing Invitation below.