goodbye to you.

"Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time
more than anything else.  It's amazing how much can be conjured

with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. 

A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time,

a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell." 

 - Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

i'm reading something borrowed for the second time.  and i've found that

although i still love the book, i feel differently about the characters this

second time around.  maybe it's because i'm in a different place in my 

life, and thus, i don't relate to the character(s) i once related to.

this quote from the book hit a chord (no pun intended) with me.

yesterday, i walked into the market, and a song i haven't heard in a long,

long time was playing.  it was a song that used to tug at my heart. 

used to make me stop in the middle of whatever i was doing because

the absence of what i once had just overpowered all my other senses.

but yesterday, the song didn't make me stop.  didn't tug at my heart.

just made me smile.    

are there any songs or smells that transport you back in time?

that make the memories so real that you feel like you're back

there - in your distant past?  or are there any songs or smells that once

did those things, but now, have no such power? 

* photo by K~Dobbins