(Winter, 2023) It’s a cold winter this year, fingers are frozen and your breath vaporises, resembling the gentle puff of a dragon. Our fireplace keeps us warm, tiny embers that grow into roaring flames, heating our toes and comforting our soul. It’s in these quiet, almost mundane times that we can observe best. Sometimes, I view my physical body as a machine or a system, in which there are sensors that relay critical information about the world around me to the central processing unit. Our feelings of sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, even humidity, temperature and the general “vibe” of the room are important to us because there are the…