smell DammitJanet The smell has been fading for years now His smell It comes and goes, like a faint wind A whisper … It’s familiar It’s safe It’s comforting It’s sad A flood comes back to me Like I’m dying Memories of how life used to be But as it goes He goes And he's gone 020729 ... pilgrim One of the most Primal Senses Deep and Mysterious Hard Wired To the Ancient Limbic Triggers That allowed Life the Luxury of Survival And gave It Time to Ponder The Essence of Awareness. The Faint Chemical Signals That Conjure Up The Past And Bind Memory Image to Scent Scent to Sensation Sensation to Reverie And back to Scent again. The Comfort of Familiarity. The Safety of the Clan. The Awareness Before the Thought. 020730 ... no reason i didn't realize you had a distinct smell until i got home and realized i smelled like you 090319 ... no reason thankfully not like smoke 090319 ... nr i miss it. it's just one of those things. i think i'm moving past things, or that i want to move past things, but then i remember it or smell it and things come rushing back. 160303 ... Soma If blather_red were a physical_space I would hope that it smelled distinctly of pine, woodsmoke, and clove. I would also settle for the smell of perhaps freshly toasted popcorn. 231218 what's it to you? who go blather from