I truly hope your summer is going well and that all your dreams under the moon include sweet songs and gentle scents. Can’t get into the garden to stir up all the peace and happiness vibes? We know the garden isn’t just about floral smells, and we make good serotonin just from mucking about in the soil. Not quite like being there, here’s one from my perfume box: Dirt. Yes, it does have the smell of dirt, and that’s a big surprise.
Try adding some Hawthorn to your scent bottle - the smell of rotting flesh is adored by bees - we had a hawthorn in the back yard of our Vancouver house. When it was covered in white blooms, in May, it fairly pulsed with bees.
I may pass on the hawthorn as a perfume scent - what if I were followed by bees when outside for a walk with the dog! Well, it could be a fairy tale: "White Blooms: the girl who called all the bees."
why not? in onomatopoeia all is right. You might be hearing "sizzle" in your mind but sissle is gentler and much more like the sound (without the connotation of frying in the heat!) To head off the grammar police you could expand it - either to a more familiar simile - like the sound of a rainstick etc., or expand to describing the dance of the pebbles stirred by the tide. But thanks for the impression - now I imagine that I hear that sissle sound!
well, I for one have been a substack subscriber of yours for a long time and look foward to the weekly.
I love your Selfie, your poem and your spirit.
Carol, your comment on mine reminded me that I meant to comment on this! I wanted to say, I love the photos and I enjoyed this gentle read.
write it!
Thank you, Carol.
Carol, Sufia
Try adding some Hawthorn to your scent bottle - the smell of rotting flesh is adored by bees - we had a hawthorn in the back yard of our Vancouver house. When it was covered in white blooms, in May, it fairly pulsed with bees.
I may pass on the hawthorn as a perfume scent - what if I were followed by bees when outside for a walk with the dog! Well, it could be a fairy tale: "White Blooms: the girl who called all the bees."
So glad I'll be hearing from you regularly. Weekly has worked really well for me on seventysomething. It keeps me in touch with what I have to say.
I'm happy to keep you posted, and I also very much appreciate yours.
btw...you look beautiful!!!
..."tracking how the tide comes in or goes out over the rocks and makes the pebbles sissle."
IS SISSLE A WORD? :))
why not? in onomatopoeia all is right. You might be hearing "sizzle" in your mind but sissle is gentler and much more like the sound (without the connotation of frying in the heat!) To head off the grammar police you could expand it - either to a more familiar simile - like the sound of a rainstick etc., or expand to describing the dance of the pebbles stirred by the tide. But thanks for the impression - now I imagine that I hear that sissle sound!