COMING TO MY SENSES

Five of them.
Taste, sight, sound, touch, and smell.

Today, (while soaking in those rays), I forced myself to focus on one. Sound.

And here is what I heard in a mere forty minutes:

The snap of my blanket as it fell over the grass.
A dog bark..
Somewhere down the street, a TV set with a spanish station blaring.
The buzz of a curious fly.
The flutter of the leaves on my Pin Oak in the slightest of cool breezes.
Far, far away - a siren.
The quiet hum of some sort of contruction machine somewhere in the neighborhood.
The slide of someone's window opening.
From my upstairs window, the buzz of the dryer.
Ginger's *snort* sound after sniffing in the air.
A bird quietly chirping.
The thup-thup of an army helicopter a little ways away.
The sound of the garage door opening, and footsteps in the kitchen,

..and

Ani's voice. "Hi Mom!"

My favorite sound of all.