{"id":2263,"date":"2016-07-27T21:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2016-07-27T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:20:55","slug":"unexpectedly-stopped-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/unexpectedly-stopped-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you been unexpectedly stopped in your tracks recently?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jasmine<\/a>I was walking down the road this morning and\u00a0passed some fairly normal, and reasonably uninteresting looking greenery overflowing a wall. But WOW! Once I was a few steps further down the road the amazing perfume of the jasmine hit me; it was wonderful, intense, heavy, luxuriant in the air. Clearly the wind was gentle enough to blow the intoxicating smell in the direction I was going, rather than the direction I had just come.<\/p>\n

I stopped, retracted my steps and took a few moments to soak in the wonderful aroma that filled the air. I also looked at the wonderful creation of nature; not a flash and imposing plant that made itself known by the colour of flower; the size of bloom; a prickly stem; or even the leaf. No, simply a wonderfully understated presence, that is, until one catches the intensity of how it makes itself known.<\/p>\n

I smiled broadly, pleased to have been stopped in my tracks, pleased to have my thoughts stirred.<\/p>\n

It was 36 years ago, almost to the month, when this smell was etched into my memory \u2013 all for wonderful reasons. It also made me reflect on a few things that made me smile even more as I strode off to my appointment. Something had dug deep into my mind and raised something long forgotten.<\/p>\n

Smell is an unusual sense and one, for me, that has some major impactful images, if I may mix up our senses. So a question or four that may well be worth a little time to consider:<\/p>\n