Daily Cascade

On a Spring Quote

Prompt:
"Like a familiar melody recalls a beloved song, the sweetest perfume of blossoms sprouting from the earth reminds our hearts that spring has arrived."
Write about this in your Blog entry today.

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I gather this quote is all about sensory experiences. Sometimes, with me, a few notes or bars of music can trigger a recall of an entire song or a memory attached to it. Just maybe, there's something deeply human about comparing nature to music, but also other senses can come into play.

Now that I have allergies, my nose isn't as effective as it used to be, but a whiff of spring flowers awakens more than a sneeze in me. It awakens something that belonged to my much younger years. So, possibly, my sense of smell might have been messed with, but my heart remembers.

What I and others usually experience through our senses is like taking snapshots or suddenly coming across old snapshots of earlier times. This makes me wonder with awe at the depth of the memories of our sensory perceptions.

Just where does a mind store all that? How does it bypass our logical brain? Why does it stir deep emotions, to boot? Does this mean one spring was the mother of all the others that came later?

It is as if my senses are writing my autobiography and digging up stuff I would never have recalled consciously. Maybe what my mind cannot remember exactly, my heart always will.

And yes, spring also has arrived to just about everywhere.