SPEAKING OF TOUCH
The word “touch” derives from many different languages and has many different meanings. Despite the many different meanings of touch, they all stem from one central factor, emotion. The literal meaning of touch or everyday meaning is when something physically touches us, but the meaning can be so much deeper than that. I like D.H. Lawrence’s use of the word, “a profound penetration into the core of someone’s being.” A touch is so much more than something physical. It came full circle when reading Sachs’ quote when describing someone on their last breath, the sense of touch is the last to go.. This makes it so much more meaningful.
The word “touch” derives from many different languages and has many different meanings. Despite the many different meanings of touch, they all stem from one central factor, emotion. The literal meaning of touch or everyday meaning is when something physically touches us, but the meaning can be so much deeper than that. I like D.H. Lawrence’s use of the word, “a profound penetration into the core of someone’s being.” A touch is so much more than something physical. It came full circle when reading Sachs’ quote when describing someone on their last breath, the sense of touch is the last to go.. This makes it so much more meaningful.
"The first emotional comfort, touching and being touched by our mother, remains the ultimate memory of selfless love, which stays with us life long."
Thinking of something so complicated and complex as life stemming from something as simple as a touch is extraordinary. This section made me stop and think how incredible life is and how it comes to be. Life is so complex and without touching, it would not exist. Touching has much more of an impact on our daily lives than we could ever imagine.
Thinking of something so complicated and complex as life stemming from something as simple as a touch is extraordinary. This section made me stop and think how incredible life is and how it comes to be. Life is so complex and without touching, it would not exist. Touching has much more of an impact on our daily lives than we could ever imagine.
THE SKIN HAS EYES
“Touch, by clarifying and adding to the shorthand of the eyes, teaches us that we live in a three-dimensional world.”
I think the sense of touch is something taken for granted in life. The touch of a loved one letting us know they care, or touching an object in the dark and knowing almost immediately what shape it is, these things have become natural and automatic. This is much like sight. I like the example Ackerman gives of Rembrandt not painting an entire boy’s hat in his painting because the mind registers it full. We all have natural habits, and touching is one of them.
“Touch, by clarifying and adding to the shorthand of the eyes, teaches us that we live in a three-dimensional world.”
I think the sense of touch is something taken for granted in life. The touch of a loved one letting us know they care, or touching an object in the dark and knowing almost immediately what shape it is, these things have become natural and automatic. This is much like sight. I like the example Ackerman gives of Rembrandt not painting an entire boy’s hat in his painting because the mind registers it full. We all have natural habits, and touching is one of them.
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