Mastery

I go outside, sit on the deck and wake up to coffee, juice and the paper. Now I’m reading about a Vegas performer named Melanie who can catch arrows shot at her head. My eyes widen. She can’t actually see the arrows coming ..but feels their arrival. I sit back, close my eyes ..and remember something my friend Jen once told me. We definitely have more than five senses. So I’m thinking Melanie must have a highly developed sense of ‘chronometry’ ..which Jen explained as the ability to perceive the time interval or ‘gap’ between events. The release and impact of an arrow. “If can catch an arrow in midair I feel capable of anything” Melanie says and I’m no longer thinking Vegas performer. Now I’m thinking martial arts expert.