A review by siebensommer
Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen Rubin

adventurous funny informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Whom do I envy? What do I lie about?" -What did I do for fun when I was ten years old? How do I put my values into
action?

"So many things happened to me. I wish I'd been paying
attention."

My environment felt oversaturated and processed, but also virtual and flattened. I wanted to make direct contact.

I craved ways to satisfy my wintertime hunger for brilliant color.

With art, you want to create the unexpected. Being forced to get oriented helps people to stop and see."

"All art is actually about death," Sarah said, "but not in a bad way. We're standing in front of a tomb, and the whole museum is a tomb, It's evidence of us being human on Earth; what it means to be alive."

Studies of what's called the
"dinner party problem" show that once a group includes five people, it usually splits into two or more conversations. So, to
my relief, I gave up my attempts to try to corral many people into a single discussion.

As a child, I'd been told, "Don't touch." and now I was touching more than ever. How I loved the world! I didn't want to let it slide through my fingers, lost and forgotten.

I am the laboratory, I am the
notebook, and I am the museum.