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Gifted with Memory Charms  

wildnwanton 61F
2108 posts
10/17/2013 5:59 pm
Gifted with Memory Charms


Ahhh, blessed silence!! The bits are gone, resident and family are at school meetings. So it is just me and the mutts and, God help me, a Harry Potter movie.

Yes, I am really this boring.

But I really treasure these quiet little moments of silence and solitude. The movie is just a left over from what the kiddos were watching. And a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. It is one of my favorite series, I watched parts of it with my when she was in high school, and parts of it with my bestie, so it brings back some happy memories to sit and re-watch them sometimes.

It is funny what triggers memories, sometimes it is a sight or a sound. My favorite memories are triggered by scent.

I love the smell of hot coffee over an open campfire early in the morning, and the smell of eggs and bacon frying over camp stoves outside. It makes me remember the camping trips and wagon trains I went on with my family. I love the way the earth smells after a warm spring rain in the deep of a forest. I can recall hiding from the rain in the deep of the woods when I was outside playing. I love the way honeysuckle smells on a warm summer night with a soft mountain wind carrying the smell through an open window. The scent of a misty morning standing alongside a field full of wild flowers and tall grass. The smell of leather and horses. These smells always bring back memories from my youth that I associated with happiness.

I think one of the main reasons I am back here is the escape it offers from the real world and all its many problems. I find the times we live in too frightening for words. So I can come here and I can cruise around and read blogs and find a laugh or something that inspires me. I can find old friends and new ones. I can pour over old memories and share the ones that made me laugh or taught me a lesson, and open a window into who I am in the off hand chance that there is a friend out there that connects with that person.

It's not a bad way to pass the time.
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/19/2013 8:02 am
    Quoting  :
I expected no less from you. And she not only KNOWS she corrupted you, she is very proud of the fact. You might have been her greatest triumph, you were such a tender gentle soul prior to meeting her. I thought I might have been reading a priest's words when I read your blog the first few times.
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/18/2013 4:31 pm
    Quoting Teyjj:
    Hey, don't feel guilty about Harry Potter. I not only saw all the movies (with and without the grandkids) but I also read all the books (and was even upset when she decided no more Harry Potter, and happy when she decided to do an offshoot series).

    Harry Potter should be everybody's guilty pleasure.
I have to admit, I fell in love with the first book, went to see all the movies. Own the books and own the movies. The concept was amazing, a book that grows up with the kid. And it illustrates that even though many hardships might come your way, if you persevere you will pull through it.
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Teyjj 56M
4122 posts
10/18/2013 2:11 pm

 Hey, don't feel guilty about Harry Potter. I not only saw all the movies (with and without the grandkids) but I also read all the books (and was even upset when she decided no more Harry Potter, and happy when she decided to do an offshoot series).

Harry Potter should be everybody's guilty pleasure.


wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/18/2013 11:13 am

 Why thank you Dennis! I am no match for you though.
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/18/2013 11:13 am
    Quoting ahmeddd93jay:
    l,sleeping outdoors and hearing the sounds of the wild just outside the tent.
It is wonderful, isn't it?
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/18/2013 11:12 am
    Quoting  :
How cool that it did! It is good to see you here after all this time darlin'! How have you been?
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


rm_19harley86 74M
45446 posts
10/18/2013 8:23 am

 you are blogging very well
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wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/18/2013 4:47 am
    Quoting lomileage5:
    I agree;reality is getting scary. this is an escape,a safety valve to maintain sanity. your musings about camping,the smell of coffee on an open fire,the smell of the soil,sleeping outdoors and hearing the sounds of the wild just outside the tent.......you brought back sweet memories for me too. thank you
They are such wonderful memories, I am glad I could tickle your brain a bit Lo.
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/18/2013 4:46 am
    Quoting Montague_Love:
    Very nice blog, without a doubt favorite smells bring back fond memories for us all. I beg to differ in that these times are not frightening at all. Just take a look back in history in times of famine, unimaginable horrors of war and complete unrest.
I am glad you don't find the times frightening. The nuclear reactor in Japan that is puking contamination into the Pacific, the endless wars we somehow manage to get caught in, the blatant lies our elected officials tell, the abuse of power by the NSA, traitors, civil unrest the world over....I find it frightening to contemplate.
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
10/18/2013 4:41 am
    Quoting  :
Well, we already know you are evil. Flirty rubbed off on you. If I were your neighbor, I would march outside with a cup and a plate and ask you where mine was.
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


lomileage5 68M
Ask me for a photo
10248 posts
10/17/2013 6:09 pm

 I agree;reality is getting scary. this is an escape,a safety valve to maintain sanity. your musings about camping,the smell of coffee on an open fire,the smell of the soil,sleeping outdoors and hearing the sounds of the wild just outside the tent.......you brought back sweet memories for me too. thank you


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