The hives are buzzing... minus the sweet hum of a few fallen heroines

                                                            
                                                                     the bee field deer runs....

Week Word- Synesthesia

Week Word- Synesthesia

Ever since learning about this 'condition' I have been fascinated.  I always wished that I would find the ability within myself to mirror some form of synesthesia.  I find the whole idea that one can involuntarily combine sensory information to create a whole new compound of information (that would not 'normally' be combined) extremely poetic and beautiful.   Synesthetic metaphors, colors as/numbers/words/sounds, tastes as sounds , music as color---- and the fact that they come so automatic- all amazing.  I am jealous.

I first read into the subject when I heard about a gentleman named Daniel Tammet .  Click this link and see him painting his numbers.  He happens to have Asperger's Syndrome and has written two books (going on a third) that beautifully articulate what his individual experience is like to be born and to live everyday as a person with Asperger's and Savant capabilities  He describes his struggle with every day tasks and how emotional communication and social interaction with others around him is extremely difficult.  He explains how he had to teach himself to look people in the eye when speaking to them even though it felt physically painful for him to do so at times.  He often speaks of sensory overload, for example he explains that he has trouble visiting certain places like the beach because he has an immediate, obsessive, compulsion to count the grains of sand.  Here is a clip of Daniel on the David letterman show  Daniel talks about how he recited pi to 22,514 decimal places in 5 hours and 14 minutes, from memory and he raised money for the epilepsy foundation.  This is Daniel's Official Website
His books are -

Born on a Blue Day
Embracing the Wide Sky- A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind


He is an amazing and brilliant man.  Please see for yourself.   Then check out Joye's blog for more interpretations of Week Word- Synesthesia
 

Week word- Lacuna

Week word- LACUNA (so sorry I am late, busy holiday week!)

-an unfilled space or interval; a gap

-a cavity or depression, especially in a bone.

- a missing portion in a book or manuscript

I love the derivatives of this word and how they sound-

lacunal- adj.

lacunary-adj

lacunate- adj.

lacunose-adj.

There is something about an unfilled space that often calls for filling it in...

or constructing it to do so...

sometimes Lacunae? Lacunas? are cozy and fun

sometimes essential...

they can feel safe....

they can protect...

sustain life....

become remnants....

There is something beautiful, maternal or womblike even, about this word (to me... it is the way I want to see/feel/interpret it.) Thank you Carmen for a great word.

Please see visit Carmen @ Tails of a Biomouse to see more Week worders' interpretations of LACUNA . Join in on the the weekly word yourself by visiting the blog of the next host of weekword (who will be revealed on Carmen's blog) Week Word is announced on Mondays. More people playing = more inspiration. :)

~Gina

At Home, Outside

Remnants...

Glory days gone?

I'm not so sure now as I look harder

Painting a bit... maybe a series

futzing and wandering, wandering and futzing

messing with the sewing machine (trying to learn how to use it)