Porthole

Triggers of childhood memories

30 BC: "What is one thing (sight, smell, sound, object, etc) that, when you encounter it, instantly brings you back to your childhood?"

Nasturtiums: flower that my grandmother would always make me pick. Hypericum... because we had a bush and no one else did. It defined yellow.

Ice-cream truck: ding. ding. and the songs they would play. The singing garbage trucks of Taiwan trigger that memory.

Butter: I craved it as a child. We grew up with margarine. Now, it doesn't always remind me of childhood... maybe just my last supper. Lima beans remind me of childhood too... but I don't crave them. Same with succotash.

Birch beer: summer fairgrounds. Better than rootbeer. And loganberry! Better than grape juice, although that too is a childhood memory.

Red houses: I grew up in one. It's still red. Traveling in Sweden constantly reminded me.

Music: certain songs like "Greensleeves", "Ombra mai fu", "Tennessee Waltz", "Yellow polka dot bikini".

These days, I'm not surrounded by much that I had when I was a child, so my mind is going blank. Maybe in the morning?

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