Smell
Photograph © Natalie Karas
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”
~ Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses
“Creativity
is a lot like looking through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements,
the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits
and pieces into an enticing new possibility.”
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter