Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part 1 Sight 9
1 You Ought to Be in Pictures 11
2 Seeing Is Believing 17
3 The Palette of Place 22
4 Local Color 26
5 Our Homes, Ourselves 29
6 Drawing Home 34
7 Let There Be Light 37
8 Art Scene 42
9 Writing on the Road 46
10 Playing with a Full Deck 50
Part 2 Sound 55
11 The Sounds of My Childhood 57
12 Wherever Music Takes You 60
13 Sounds of the City 63
14 Bird Talk 67
15 Voices without Words 69
16 My Body Is My Instrument 72
17 He Said, She Said 75
18 Chants Encounter 78
19 At Water's Edge 81
20 The Sound of Silence 86
Part 3 Smell 91
21 Rose in Bloom 93
22 Three-Note Harmony 95
23 Cleopatra Isn't Welcome Here 97
24 Odors of Time and Place 101
25 Scents of the Season 104
26 Bridging Smell and Taste 107
Part 4 Taste 111
27 Cooking Lessons 113
28 Kitchen Aids 118
29 Savoring Life, One Bite at a Time 124
30 The Bounty of the Season 126
31 A Slice of Life 130
32 Mindful Eating 132
33 Olio Nuovo 136
Part 5 Touch 139
34 Hothouse Flower 141
35 Fashionistas 145
36 Clay Idylls 150
37 Kiss and Tell 153
38 Fabricating Stories 157
39 Corporal Punishment 160
40 Sybaritic in Sonoma 162
41 The Bittersweet Hereafter 166
Part 6 A Symphony of Senses 173
42 Oh My Darlin' Clementine 175
43 Sentimental Journey 178
44 Mood Ring 182
45 In the Garden 185
46 Victoria's Secret 191
47 Altars and Rituals 194
48 Succulence 200
Part 7 Motion 205
49 Actions Speak Louder Than Words 207
50 Verbs in Motion 210
51 Shall We Dance? 213
52 Horseplay 218
53 Wrapped Attention 227
54 Water, Water Everywhere 232
55 In a Heartbeat 234
Part 8 Reworking Your Material 237
56 A New Way to Say It 239
57 Composting 241
58 Editing and Polishing 243
59 Disrobing in a Public Place 251
The Sixth Sense 252
Resources 253
Credits 255
