Midnight Musings

Why is it that I can't smell the smells from the kitchen when I'm in the kitchen? I mean, I make soup but can't smell it unless I go upstairs. I bake pie and banana bread and can't smell it until it's almost done, but from upstairs it smells yummy. I thought maybe it was sensory overkill but I can smell nothing in the kitchen and yet as soon as I get to the stairs, there it is. It makes me want to use cinnamon potpourri but I'm afraid the combination would kill my olfactory nerves forever. Hmmm...is there a temporary sensory death? Is death a relative term? 'Tis the season to contemplate Jesus' birth and then his death, which was certainly temporary though no less complete for the brevity of it. Born to die so that we might live. Wow - what a segue - from my cooking to salvation. Can't improve on that!

'night.