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

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". ;)