Dig into the earth soon. Let it comfort you knowing you are connected to something far more expansive than you can see, imagine, or know. Dig up a part of your world that draws a continuous line to other countries, cultures, and lives. Whether covered by water, forest, foliage or pavement, we all are grounded on top of something that continuously shifts, changes, allows us to grow and ultimately become a part of someday.

Feel some earth. From this humble gesture, you can feel mighty.

I wanted to share a little John Wayne, a little poem, and a passionate cry for why I love America.

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We use these little suckers mindlessly to communicate our thoughts, respond to others, and complete our work. We seldom ever even look at them, but they are vital to how we communicate on this here web thingy.

Do this sensory exercise:
Put your fingers on your keyboard on home row.

Are they smooth? Rough?
Are they flat or do they curve?
Feel the bumps under your index fingers (keys “F” and “J”)
What else do you notice?

Sometimes we numb out of life. We forget how it feels to really be alive. We take things for granted. We forget to notice sometimes the tiniest things. We forget how wondrous some things are and why we like or don’t like certain things.

In this section, to touch or feel, I remind you to get tactile with some common everyday things and ask you how it feels.

In a simple way, it somehow – though you feel stupid sometimes doing it – gives you a better appreciation and awareness of what is around you. You focus, you feel, you can write it down if you like, or add something to your list of what makes you smile.

To feel natural and manmade items on a regular basis (that’s right…I don’t expect you to do it daily although you can if you’d like) will bring out the inner writer in you as well. You’ll be able to describe things better and know how you’d describe something to a child just learning how to experience the world on his or her own.

It’s an amazing appreciation I hope you’ll come to love no matter how whacked-out it sounds right now.

Just try it for a week and see if you don’t start noticing more about what lies at your fingertips. It’ll be fun!

Touching things makes us more aware and focuses our attention on what is here in front of us. Sometimes these things are overlooked or taken for granted. But hopefully, you can use some of my ideas to really stir your inner writer.

This section is full of challenges on closing your eyes and feeling things.

Heyyyyyy, no wise cracks here. I mean it. FEEEL something. Touch it. And your greatest challenge will be to describe it. But I’ll give you some prompts to help you out.

Just one more way of making everyday things, special.