Thankfulness for Monday

[same_sky]

I completely forgot about this last night until M kissed my nose in bed. I was going to make it a feature this week!

Things I'm Thankful For

• Photoshop and my Wacom tablet--they allow me to use my skills for both good AND evil. (But I won't post evil because I'm not, really.)
  
• The joys of string and the lovely things that you can do with it.
  
• My friends--okay, just another standard boring but true one. Hopefully I'm done with that now.
  
• The smell of Scotch tape, which reminds me that Christmas is on its way.
  
• Mail filtering, which is a very Good Thing in light of the floods of spam I'm getting these days.

Comments

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else understands! It's always a beautiful smell to me just because it reminds me of wrapping presents and stacking them under the tree and doing something nice for someone just because you want to, and you never smell more of it than at Christmas. I was really excited when I used the last of the generic tape we had laying around so I could buy expensive smelly tape. (M thought I was crazy.)

[blookum.livejournal.com]

Expensive smelly tape... I'll have to tell my Mom that.

See, we were always a Crayola crayon family for the same reason... that SMELL. It smelled like autumn and the first day of school and new beginnings... heady, exciting stuff.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. The excitement of starting a new year of school, with a bundle of nerves in your tummy but feeling slightly appeased by the brand new Crayolas, still with their slight flat tip. There was more than just wax in those yellow and green boxes, there was promise. We always had Crayolas, too, although we had a big bucket of crayons (we could never keep them in their boxes) and there were restaraunt crayons mixed in, for we were still thrifty. I never liked to use those.

I walked into my high school once to get a transcript, a couple of years afer I graduated, and the smell of the place gave me huge jittery feelings. It's so amazing how these things last.

Smell and the tidal pull of memory

[blookum.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that the sense of smell is tied in most closely with the part of your brain that links long-term memory. I don't know if that is true or not, but I know that smell can conjure up memories I didn't know I even had.

My brother often mixes his own paints with pigments and linseed oil. He smells deeply of it and thrills that painters hundreds of years ago worked with the same smell. There is a comfort to that link...

Re: Smell and the tidal pull of memory

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

We're a little sappy today--that made me go "awww". ;)