Touching, Saying, Being: A Cairn of Colorful Stones

In this reply, I invoke Morganthaler’s metaphor of a colorful stone to appreciate the cairn of ideas that my discussants have helped me build. In addition to responding to each discussant, I elaborate on the saying’s phenomenology by contemplating three ideas: one, how the saying may relate to touching rather than transforming thought; two, what it means when someone states that they have more say in their life; and three, the psyche-somatic force of gentleness.