Teen Spirit? Well… took the Nirvana song title as an inspiration to go back in time a little bit – as I have read too much in newspapers during the last weeks it is time for a ‘political break’;
I have the impression that at the moment everything is said but not done of course!
Follow me back to youth, back to old memories. To the very first sense sensations – the ones you remember best. At the moment, Almut, in front of her milestone birthday, is in the mood of ‘Oh, I remember well when…’ – her 30th A-level anniversary even intensified these feeelings
a little bit more.
So, coming to the classical five senses
(attention – role change: I’ll tell you about Almut’s memories now!):
Hearing
The first sound she remembers actively – she must have been about three years old at that time – was the one of a hoopoe (the sound they make is very alike the english name by the way,
nice onomatopoetic name though… and the latin name: upupa epops – how funny…
read and hear (!) more: hoopoe) sitting in a fir in the garden.
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hoopoe (Upupa_epops _1_Luc_Viatour)
Sight
And she still bears a very clear picture of the bird in mind – sitting there with his crest erected like a cockatoo.
Almut pauses for a while, telling me then that as a child, later, she loved so much the books of Enid Blyton with the 4 children (the adventure series) –
one of the children (Jack) owned a cockatoo. And the other boy continously carried different animals with him.
And she adds: sight? Love at first sight of course!
Smell Different smells come into her mind –
the smell of cows lying in the sun on bloomy mountain meadows, hay, horses’ nostrils,
the first snow, woods, Xmas spices and bakery,
the smell of the linoleum in the kitchen,
the polished old dark parquet at her grandma’s,
and many many more…
Taste “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” (Oscar Wilde quoted in a short volume of his friend Edgar Saltus)
Ah, quite difficult to remember… hm, food in first place, Xmas bakery again, chocolate pudding, fresh apples, fresh fruit in general. Carrots… potatoes!
First kiss … (later, hi, hi…)
Touch
“Touching animals (‘nature’) – be it living or be it toys.
The toy animals I remember were a hare and a panda (Bär-Katze Panda).
Oh, and flowers, when I was very little I always plugged the blossoms from the amaryllis
(my parents were really not amused). The sensation of touching the first snow in winter…
and warm rocks in the mountains, warm or wet moss…”.
And you can be touched by somebody/ something as well – you only need
a little bit of a feeling to feel it.
Almut and me, we are very curious about your first sense sensations and
would love to hear and read about them!