[stylist] the synesthesia poem ... finally!

[Barbara Hammel]

You do have it, Vejas, just a different form. And A Mango-Shaped space is an awesome book.
Barbara

Me

> On Oct 17, 2013, at 9:47, Vejas <alpineimagination at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think I have it too.  For me, certain words remind me of certain foods.
> I never knew the name until I read a book called A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass.  It is about a girl named Mia who has it.
> When I was younger, I used to have 2 categories of names: salt names and sugar names.  The salt names reminded me of salty food and the sugar names of sweet food.  That was in first grade, and now I've learned a lot of new names and I haven't categorized them in a while.  There was no real reason why.
> Some "salty" names are Clyde, Spencer, Claudia and Della.  Some sugary names are Matthew, Robert, Heidi, Emma, Melody and Evelyn.  I remember in first grade I had a story where the teacher wanted to break the children into groups by "salt" and "sugar" names.
> But like I said, now I know more names, and I actually haven't thought about this in a long time, until I read this.
> Also, some names were neither salty nor sweet.
> Vejas
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at msn.com
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:58:26 -0500
> Subject: Re: [stylist] the synesthesia poem ...  finally!
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> Chris, my understanding is that only 10% of the population experience some form of synesthesia.  Until a couple of years ago, I never knew this had a name.  I just assumed that everyone saw things like this.
> Barbara
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> Me
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> On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:30, "Chris Kuell" <ckuell at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hi Barbara,
> 
> Thanks for sharing your poems with us.  I really enjoyed the one on synesthesia.  I know a couple of blind people who describe letters and words as you do, and I'd love to experience it.  But it just doesn't happen in my case.  All I have is imagination.
> 
> chris
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