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| 30 Day Blogging Challenge Prompt 2 ▼ I do think that taste is an underutilized sense in writing. Especially my own writing. I'll have to make a note to myself. As a matter of fact, I think I feel a new idea forming  I suppose that since I mainly write poetry, I don't often have the opportunity to explore taste. Which is bullshit, because I've written poems about coffee, so there have been opportunities, I just didn't take them. I probably went on and on about the smell. Good to know though! As it happens, yesterday, my nephew had a box of "every flavor" jellybeans. It was amusing to watch him eat them. Zak has a lot of sensory issues and won't eat things like cotton candy or chunky peanut butter because of the texture. I was blown away at his eagerness to sample these jellybeans. We've made progress! Let me add when they say "every flavor", they really mean it! The first one was butter. Not too bad. The second was soap. Now, I had a mouth full of soap several times during my younger days, but Zak was pretty dumbfounded because he's never had that experience. He can now say that he doesn't like the taste of soap.  But the third jellybean really had him confused. It was grass. Does grass have a taste? He wouldn't take my suggestion of chewing a few blades of the lawn, but he did agree to try this new flavor. The grass flavored jellybean tasted exactly like a fresh cut lawn smells. How can that be? You can taste a smell? He went off to research this new phenomenon and he's thinking about possible science projects for the future. Which means I'll have to do some research too, just make sure he's not trying to bamboozle me.  I'm really proud of him for trying something new. It's rare. He doesn't do well with change and is pretty stubborn. Although, neither one of us tried the snot flavored jellybean. However, he did set it aside to slip to my sister the next time she's around.  |
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but seems to be okay today. I worry about my poor circulation, scrub my toes with a soft bristle brush, watch discoloration come and go. I probably need new arteries or veins but hey... "Heathcare" USA (enough said?). I may be better off trying something here in Thailand. But still... wish I lived in a country that had adequate patient based healthcare. Thailand and Taiwan mostly do, but I can't access it. First world systems like Europe, Canada and Australia do, but again, I can't access it. 