Smell: the most spiritual of the senses

Today i am cooking my grandmother’s chicken and rice recipe. It has many fragrant ingredients including saffron, cinnamon, paprika, lemon, garlic, vinegar, and onion, and when preparing it, the essence of my loving and gracious grandmother fills the house. In my mind’s eye, I can see her inviting smile and her kind and gentle eyes.

Smell can drift in and out of our presence, like it is there and it is not there at the same time. It can drift around unseen, unheard, untouched, and it can mysteriously appear out of nowhere. And there is so much weight of presence attached to it that it can bring other invisible, silent, intangible apparitions into existence.

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Smoke: ajbarickman.com