The Bloganuary question yesterday, which I never got to, was “Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell?”
The Bloganuary question today is “Describe the happiest day of your life.”
Visits to Memory Lane seem to be immanent in these questions. IMMANENT was the Ragtag Daily Prompt word this morning. Not to be confused with IMMINENT, this word immanent means INHERENT or INDWELLING. Synonyms: essential, ingrained, intrinsic. A new word for me!
As to the first question, I thought of Avon Windjammer cologne. When I first met my husband and we were getting to know each other, he had this maroon furry pullover jacket, and he used Windjammer aftershave. I remember laying my head on his shoulder in that fuzzy pile and smelling the faint trace of Windjammer. I think I’d still recognize that scent.
As to the happiest day of my life, it would be hard to pinpoint because there have been many high points of joy along the way. Christmases as a child, carefree summer holidays spent with my siblings. The day our daughter arrived. One red letter event, of course, was our wedding. August 1970. And here’s one little memory snippet from that day.
Are you old enough to remember fluffed facial tissue flowers? We’d cut out a big cardboard heart to put on the front of the best man’s car, and the daughters of friends fluffed Kleenex flowers for days before the big event. In the morning we pasted them onto the cardboard, which our best man attached to the grill of his car. And of course we didn’t have quite enough, so my bridesmaid and I spent an hour or so that morning fluffing more tissue flowers.
We drove away from the church in style! Then sometime after the service but before the reception we got a nice little shower, just enough to water our flowers. 🙂
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Yes, I remember those flowers! From a distance, they were actually quite convincing 🙂
Immanent. At first, of course, I thought it just a typo. New word to me, and probably not one I’ll use because I think it would be confusing to my listeners/readers. Fascinating, though, what a difference one small letter makes.
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There are other words that work better. And yes, when you’re learning a new language you realize just how much difference a letter, or even the way you pronounce a vowel, can make.
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