Of all the senses touch is the most productive it's not that the other senses don't make passion rise after all people do communicate with their eyes and we know about pheromones that attract us without any noticeable scent and to which even a bull moose yields and taste is obvious in the pleasure it gives and there is something betwitching in the sound of a voice but touch is the master sense hearing and sight and smell and taste draw us to the fruit but touch lets us dig our fingers in greedy for surrenders as unconditional as the fruit or any other truth or aim worth pursuing stopping in Stockholm on a bright Summer's day I saw a poster on the wall inside the post office which read Eye, burin, hand the photograph on which the slogan was printed showed an engraver etching a plate with the design of a new stamp natives and Buddhists potters and painters sculptors and crafters of tales all say when you touch the earth or a produ...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!