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Today’s Take Action Prompt: What’s that smell?
By Sandra Lee Schubert | June 18, 2008
What’s that smell? In keeping with the theme of exploring our senses this year, I ask that you activate your sense of smell. Spring is a delightful time, offering us new scents with new flowers, spring rains and longer nights. Our sense of smell can activate all sorts of memories. Homeowners selling their homes will burn candles that smell of cinnamon and vanilla. They will bake cookies to entice buyers to believing this is a home they could live in. Think how your sense of smell activates your creative senses. Does the smell of ink or paint lead you to pick up a pen or brush? Pay attention to the things you smell. Hold an orange. Feel the texture of its skin. Run your nail across it and sniff. Sniff a day. Spend a day sniffing. Sniff the air, the food you eat. What smells are good and which ones are bad? Does a certain smell invoke a particular memory? Write about something about scents and smells. This can be an exercise into the exotic smelling is a good thing. After all, your nose knows. Use it well!
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