Perceiving - December 4, 2013

We have the usual five senses plus proprioception, and I think that there are more that we use but don't know how to define them. Maybe intuition is a good fuzzy description. As I row I find myself using most of the usual senses, not so much taste and smell, but big time proprioception that reaches out 10 feet any direction, feeling the water, silkiness, or bumpiness as the oars feather across chattering, skittering, gliding, also bringing sound into the mix at the same time. And then there is that moving backward thing and especially in docking which seems uncannily easy given all the givens that go into it. I think these bodies can sense more around them than science is wont to credit.