Re: Re: Aroma memories - Gita and

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Jack , Gita, , et all...Food aroma

memories!!!!

I've got one that may even make you wonder about me....

My Dad ( May he rest in peace) was a butcher for many of my

growing up years. He would shower before coming home but still that

smell of raw

beef lingered. It never bothered me..it was Dad .Many years later when

on a school trip with

our youngest son Sam's nursery school, we went to a supermarket. The

guide took us through

the entire place including the cutting room. Everyone was covering

their noses and walking out quickly

....there I was smiling.It smelled like Dad!!!

I think sensory memories like aromas and sounds are wonderful ways to

keep

people with you. They trigger emotions!

Z fibriotic NSIP/05

Z 64,

fibriotic NSIP/o5/PA

And “mild”

PH/10/07 and Reynaud’s too!!

No, NSIP was not

self-inflicted…I never smoked!

Potter,

reader,carousel lover and MomMom to

Darah

and Sara

“I’m gonna

be iron like a lion in Zion” Bob Marley

Vinca

Minor-periwinkle is my flower

Jack Marshall wrote:

Enough

about flowers. For me it is the smell of bacon waking me up. I am on

the banks of Red River on a fishing trip with my dad. I am 9 or 10

years old (and still am in some respects). It's 4:30 am and time to

run the trot lines again. But first, bacon and potatoes fried over a

wood fire, a pot of coffee boiling away, and a couple of fat catfish in

the second skillet. I rarely eat meat, but the smell of bacon gives me

no choice.

Jack

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Original Message ----

From: Sher Bauman <bofuswbcable (DOT) net>

To: Breathe-Support

Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 11:31:35 AM

Subject: Re: Re: Aroma memories - Gita and

Kerry.... I just read about your

aroma memories. You take me to your memories as if I were there with

you. I can smell the same smells because I've smelled those same

things. Thanks for evoking my own memories.

An aunt's home in Santa ,

CA...a gardenia bush by the back door...

Another aunt's home, in Coquille,

OR. w/apple orchard and apples on the ground...

Jasmine is a favorite fragrance

(but not like in perfume). Night blooming is especially fragrant isn't

it.

If I smell those aromas now, I

will think of YOU.

MamaSher, age 69. IPF 3-06, OR./

Nasturtiums

Don't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

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Original Message -----

From:

Gita

Vasudev

To:

Breathe-Support@

yahoogroups. com

Sent:

Sunday, July 06, 2008 8:18 PM

Subject:

Re: Aroma memories - Gita and

Kerry,

You have written so well , thank you for sharing your beautiful and

cherished memories.I am glad the mention of jasmine has triggered

them.

the jasmine is very common here and is also used extensively

for 'Pooja" or the worship of god , women love to wear small

garlands of jasmine in their hair.

Nature has gifted us such bounties that even memories of fragrence

brings forth such joy as you describe. , what i like is the way you

have stored these mamories and valued them so much .

your father comes across as an extraordinary man and dad too, he has

given you such a great childhood and is still actively helping you

through this disease and providing you with all the support you need

you are what you are today, a very beautiful human being because of

your parents.

In b'bay we are starved of nature , it is has become a concrete

jungle, but we do have a small patch of garden 7'by5' just a

handkerchief size piece where we have a few potted plants, we do

have jasmine bush too .

I also love roses in all hues!the hibuscus comes in atleast a dozen

colors and is also called the 'shoe flower', it is very common here.

I wonder whether you have the lotus there ?the tube rose is another

fragrant flower. Why has nobody mentioned the Zera bera also called

the african Lily?

I am so glad that you will soon get a new lung.Keep well

All my love

Geeta

-- In Breathe-Support@

yahoogroups. com, "Kerry" <kerrygeron@ ...>

wrote:

>

> Gita, as soon as I saw your post about being associated w/ the

> jasmine I thought that was perfect. I must tell you about my

> connection w/ jasmine. You know how certain fragrances evolk

> certain memories or feelings? For me, jasmine is a really

important

> and powerful aromatic memory. It means home, my Dad, childhood,

> spring/summer, absolutely happy thoughts. At my parents home,

just

> outside the side kitchen door to the backyard, just outside our

> dining room window was a huge vine that my Dad always

called "night

> blooming jasmine". I have never looked it up, I assume there is a

> difference because I've never smelt anything just like it. I

would

> walk out the door and breathe in deeply again and again... just

> couldn't take it in enough. WOW, now that I think about it... a

> memory of breathing really deeply... as if that isn't a happy

enough

> memory. It bloomed at night during the spring/summer (hey, it's

> southern California hard for me to remember the exact time but it

> was WONDERFUL!!! ) It is one of my absolutely most perfect

childhood

> memories.

>

> Now, some of the other childhood favorites are the same as s

> favorite flowers. Along w/ the jasmine vine was a gardenia bush

> right on the other side of the walkway into the backyard. Funny

> note on different reactions... I found out in our adulthood, that

my

> sister always hated that gardenia bush... said it was too

strong...

> and I loved it. I loved that gardenia bush and the flowers, but I

> do not like anything w/ a gardenia "fragrance". .. just the real

> thing. I also loved how completely purely WHITE the flowers were,

> like nothing could be so white and they were silky to the touch

and

> soft... such a complete memory. Carnations are another favorite

and

> one that makes me think of my Dad. I remember my Dad growing

> carnations on the lowest tier of his backyard garden and they had

> such a strong clove spiciness, no storebought ones could ever

> compare.

>

> A final thought of childhood "aroma" memories was on the other

> coast... visiting my grandfather in Massachusetts. He had lots of

> apple trees on his farm and the smell of them at the end of their

> season was one of the times we regularly visited. It's the smell

of

> them fallen off the tree on the ground and heated by the sun...

> where the sugar in them is really developed and the bees are

buzzing

> all around, to describe it maybe like an applesauce smell, but

sooo

> intense. I remember after flying there and finally arriving at

his

> house in Saugus, MA I would get out of the car and the smell would

> overwhelm you... I knew I was at Grampie's house.

>

> Kerry

> 37 IPF '01 S. IN

>

>

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > > I agree wholeheartedly, nothun' WRONG with the

FLOWER

choice

> > > > BUT......

> > > > > was Jack choosing it BECAUSE of the lovely

Flower or the

> > effect of

> > > > it's

> > > > > dried flower HEAD or LEAF??????? [:-/] [O:)]

Watcha say

Jack?

> > > > >

> > > > > SGIO

> > > > >

> > > >

> > >

> >

>

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