Recently, I saw these two paintings. I wasn’t looking for paintings, but they caught my attention, because I have two daughters. I thought they depicted their personalities.
The elephants when they are stressed. The giraffes when they are trying to decide what to do.
I find life amusing.
At any given moment in life, we can see, hear, smell something and a vision comes to us or we are transported back in time. For example, recently, I smelled some lilacs and I was brought back to my childhood when they were in bloom.
Have you had a recent memory come to you after seeing “something?”
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The smell of pickle juice takes me back more than 60 years to the times I would be helping Mom pickle cucumbers. Smell is definitely a memory trigger. Happy Wednesday. Allan
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How wonderful!! Thanks for sharing that. 🌺
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Oh yes, it happens to me too. Many things, or smells, or melodies…tickle my memory. 😊
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Happens to me often. Many times when I hear a song from the past.
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It’s amazing, isn’t it. I mean we are going through a normal day… and suddenly, we are transported somewhere else!
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For me, it’s usually the smell that can spontaneously evoke strong memories – a whiff of apple pie can instantly transport me home in my mind.
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How interesting. I just cut open a grapefruit, that brought me back to thoughts of my grandmother.
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🥰🥰🥰
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I agree with everyone that scents can often evoke memories.
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💕👍
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I heard a song when I was getting a mani and it totally reminded me of a friend
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Thanks for sharing. I love that!
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What a great way to begin a novel-remembering a scent….
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Must be why it’s recommended to bake cookies when you’re having an open house? 🙂
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That’s right!! 😉
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There’s a certain soap smell that always reminds me of my grandmother’s house. I know it’s one of the basic ones like Ivory but I haven’t come across it in a long time. Smells are cool that way.
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Dave, you are right. There is a certain soap smell that reminds me of my Italian grandmother. It’s not like I could stand in the soap isle and find it. It’s a bit different. That smell just has to come when it comes….
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I am a car guy, and seeing a certain car will always remind me of someone who drove one like it. One summer many years ago, I was at a car show and saw a Robin’s egg blue 1969 Ford LTD 4 door. It was an oddity at a car show and I was transported back to memories of my father who drove one exactly like it in 1969, right down to the color.
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How wonderful! You have a lot of memories from childhood. I don’t know if I have so many or I just don’t think about it so much.
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