I cannot contemplate a world without touch, both in its giving and receiving. My next most crucial sense is sight, despite the importance of music in my life. All three senses play a part in beauty and the arts which are vital to me, unlike taste and smell which I could live, reluctantly, without.
Isolation is used as a method of punishment that denies or limits our senses. At a different point for each of us, sensory deprivation crosses the boundary into mistreatment, and worse, torture.
I am not good with written instructions as I do not remember lengthy procedures at all well. I am wired to learn through observation, through listening, and play, three areas that are not at all straight forward to measure or evidence.
Play is my most effective tool, however many mistakenly view play as a counterweight to work, while I view my most serious work as play...
I consider the second article of The Rights of Living Things: that peaceful coexistence does not only relate to humans.
The declaration challenges us to respect the importance of all living things, and to act in ways that provides the best chance for life to flourish on our fragile world. Although this requires immense effort and creativity, this also provides us with an opportunity to cultivate our common purpose.
William Shakespeare
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Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.