Write to Taste Life Twice

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Anais Nin

When you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, writing the memory of a beautiful time or occasion, the rush of feeling and excitement washes over the senses. When I write of memories, I find myself awash in the smells and the feelings on my skin of the time.
Many a time I stay within the happy zones of memory to make sure that these sensations are not unpleasant or unhappy. But, even then with those memories there is an ...