Let's Stop To Smell The Hogwarts Castle

I just had one of those "Wait, it's Thursday?" moments - but in a bad way. Anyone else?

This week feels like it's slipping away double-speed, and if you're feeling the same then I have a little reminder for all of us: 

Sometimes when you're feeling really behind the answer isn't to speed up, it's to slow down.

So c'mon, let's stop and smell these pretty Hogwarts pictures.

Mmmmm. Smells like a sense of wonder and Iocane powder.

Definitely getting some whiffs of cotton candy here.

Or, if you prefer your angles - and your intellects - more dizzying:

This one's Angry Cotton Candy

Lemon drops. With a touch of cedar.

I was joking at first about these smells, but I kid you not: I scrolled down to this next picture and could almost taste the sweet musty air of a library:

Ahhhh. So good. I want to breathe library air all day.

I'm actually really curious on this next one: what does your brain "smell"?

 

These windows are in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, btw, a place I'd dearly love to see with the lights turned up.

 

I don't know about you, but I'm finding this a fun thought exercise, linking smells to photos. (Or tastes, if you're like my friend Traci with anosmia.) In fact I'm getting less of a smell here and more of a taste: something bitter and sharp, like the gin and tonic I vaguely remember trying years ago.


This one's the banner on my personal Facebook account right now:

Even though it's a picture of the same thing, to me this one smells like the tiniest hint of warm vanilla and dusty stonework.

Ok, last one:

I'll leave this one up to you guys, too, so I don't affect your answers. What do you smell or taste?

I took all of these on my iPhone 8, then edited them to death (to life?) using Snapseed.

*****

P.S.

I'll be honest, I lost a day or two this past week because I was mentally stuck. Sometimes I fall into this awful inertia that leaves me wanting to do so, so much... but unable to do much of anything at all. I know a lot of you understand. I know a lot of you get stuck the same way - and then run yourselves ragged trying to make up for lost time. I see you out there trying to conquer the world, trying to never let anyone down, trying to be everything to everyone. But hey, listen, you - YOU, who you are - you are enough.

You're enough.

You're enough.

What you give is enough.

What you do is enough.

And anyone who says differently is selling something.

So please, go spend time with someone who doesn't ask anything more from you today. Snuggle your pet. Hug your SO. Tell that friend who makes you glow inside that they make you glow inside. Give them the gift of you, just you, being you.

Because that is enough.


Also I love you very much and I'm not sure HOW I managed to use 3 Princess Bride references in this post, but if you caught them all then I love you that much more. HIGH FIVE.