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[wispfox]

A quote I have always loved from Mercedes Lackey's Tayledras (part of her Valdemar books) is "Zhai'helleva, ashke" - or, "Wind to thy wings, beloved". Never before have I known anyone it felt right to say it to. Even if I did feel compelled to modify it a little.


A random thing I noticed a bit ago (last Sunday, I believe), and was reminded of tonight. Of all the five physical senses, taste is the only one from which I have never had an overwhelmingly pleasant experience. I like some foods, yes, but I generally eat to not be hungry. This confuses people.


OK, I'm seriously babbling and tired, and need to get up to go to Rhode Island tomorrow to visit family members. So, I sleep.

And I have hope.

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[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Chocolate?

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Never understood people's fascination for chocolate. Even the one time of year I crave it (wintertime), it's because of its slightly upper characteristics, and not because of some mind-blowing experience I get from it.

I mean, I _know_ that there are people who get such things from food. I just never have even gotten close, and do not understand it.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Aww... I guess you get your energy from silliness and bouncy balls and lightning then. :)

More chocolate for meeeeeee! *bounces*

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I guess you get your energy from silliness and bouncy balls and lightning then.

And joy, and wind, and sunshine, and kitties, and...

Yes. I do. I'm high on life, often. ;)

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Whee!

[moosemonster.livejournal.com]

Ice cream?

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Ice cream is good, but I have not been pleasantly overwhelmed by it.

Fruits are the closest I get to that, I think.

Re: Wind to thy wings

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Considering the degree to which I am aire based, I've really loved this saying...
If you would like a way to explore the Beloved, you might check into Sufi writings, Rumi is the only one that comes to mind immediately. There's a specific book that I'm looking for that will likely get me to actually clean up my secondary table by my desk.

I've wanted to be a kestra'chern but I know that's not a viable path given our current societal mores.

As for taste, that's something that I have experimented a lot with. The question becomes what sorts of things do you find the most interesting? I find textures to be more engaging due to my nose frequently be stuffed up. Some find simple subtle flavors to be the best, and still others find a complex mix of flavours to be enrapturing.
It just so happens that I know places to try all of these things around here. Sounds like a plan of action when you make it out here.

BTW, if you can find an exquisite sushi place, you might try there. I'm not talking about good or wonderful sushi. I'm speaking of enrapturing. Out of all the sushi places I've tried, I've only had such at two places. I might know some people that would know if you're interested.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Rumi... Hmm. Is that enough information to locate something, or do I need more to go by?

I've wanted to be a kestra'chern

This does not surprise me, somehow. :)

taste [...] what sorts of things do you find the most interesting?

Crunchy things please me. Fruit pleases me. I don't tend to like squishy much, which cuts out most sushi (but I do like some cooked sushi). I adore mint. Mmm... More probably, but the fact that taste _isn't_ a strong interest of mine makes this difficult. And is probably why, up till the last few years, I was even worse at telling people what kinds of foods I liked, or suggesting food types.

It just so happens that I know places to try all of these things around here. Sounds like a plan of action when you make it out here.

Indeed!

BTW, if you can find an exquisite sushi place, you might try there.

I don't think I know of any...

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

If you search on Rumi, you should find much. An article that has some stuff in it would be Sufi Mysticism of the Indus Valley (http://www.apnaorg.com/articles/sufi.html) although I should be getting a reference to something better later today.

The food things give me ideas...

[missdimple.livejournal.com]

The taste thing doesn't confuse me at all as someone who has (in recent memory) lost my sense of taste and smell. Both have mostly returned (yesterday I smelled popcorn again as buttery popcorn for the first time since December 2001). Having lost (and regained) it, but having it not return as strongly, I really understand that we don't all experience the world in the same way. Our senses really interpret this place as similar (sometimes), but not identically. I often think it would be a mindblowing experience to be able to experience the world as someone else just to see what an alternative is like. (I guess in some ways, my experience did just that.)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Having lost (and regained) it, but having it not return as strongly, I really understand that we don't all experience the world in the same way.

True! But it appears that the vast majority of the people I know _do_ have a pretty strong and interesting sense of taste, so my lack of strong interest in much for food confuses them.

But yeah, you have many good points. :)

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

a pretty strong and interesting sense of taste

Yes and no. What I like, I like. But I can't tolerate most spicy foods... with the exclusion of garlic.

Very picky, I am.

garlic

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

garlic isn't a spice. It's a staple...

Re: garlic

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Indeeed.

As paultopia said in this comment (http://www.livejournal.com/community/single_n_sod_it/43827.html?thread=895283#t895283):

*purring* garliccccc.... cheeeeesssseeeee.... garliccccc.... cheeeeesssseeeee.... musstt haavvee... garliccccc.... cheeeeesssseeeee.... and lets not forget marinara.

Mmmm, now I'm hungry. :-P