The other day as I was driving into town, I spied a young couple, walking on the sidewalk—they looked to be teenagers. They were holding hands; she on the outside nearest the street, he on the inside near the lawns. I assumed they had walked from high school.
Right in the middle of the block, he stopped and moved her to the inside and he took the outside to the street! I'm cheering!! Yay! That kid does have some manners--someone taught him well to show respect, love, concern for your love one. Touching is good! That act 'touched' my heart and sense of love!
Touch is many things--but in the above instance, that touch was one of the sweetest things I'd seen in awhile. I touch to feel texture of cloth, roughness of buildings, stiffness of fabric, sensation of cold or hot, How do we teach a baby 'not to touch' a hot appliance of surface? They can get close to touch and back away--and say "Hot"!
Today, I'm touching lots of fabric--I'm pressing the cloth for a long arm quilting day! There will be lots of touching involved as the needles moves over the texture of the quilt top. If there is a problem with the stitches, we can touch and feel the difference in a good stitch or a bad stitch.
After the birth, a new born is placed skin to skin with the mother so they can bond. Our grand daughter did not have that touch after her baby was born--he was whisked away immediately--he was taken to NICU for his CDH condition. The mother was crushed! She wanted that touch! It was a week before she could place that baby to her chest.
During the day, you use your fingertips to touch every object that you use. In each fingertip, there are over 3,000 touch receptors! Why is touch the most sensitive sense? The sense of touch originatees in the bottom layer of your skin called the dermis. The dermis is filled with many tiny nerve endings that give you information about the things your body is touching.
Touch! is all important! touch someone today! and often!
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