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Sensory Saturday #4-- "Rain"

4/28/2013

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Write your own Sensory Saturday post in the comments below.

She tilted her head back, nostrils flaring as she scented the air.

The scent was familiar, but it was one she had not smelled for months. It was clean, but not what others might consider clean. There was an underlying smell of fresh earth, newly revealed after the melt of feet of snow.

She had spent enough time in the city to know that the smell of earth, no matter how it made her heart swell, would be offsetting to those who lived in the city.

But she was no longer one of them.

She turned her head to the northeast and let the wind breathe over her face. It played there, breaking over her nose, caressing her cheeks, tickling her ears and blowing back her hair.

The northern wind reddened her skin, a remnant of the long winter, but she did not care. She could smell a new scent on the wind, one that filled her at once with excitement and peace.

It was a scent she could never have described, but which she recognized instantly.

There was rain on the air.

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Mary Janet
4/28/2013 11:51:34 am

Rain
My eyes still closed, I could hear the early morning, spring rain through the barely open window. Wouldn't it be great to feel the drops on my dry skin? Skin that has been covered by a multitude of varied fabrics the entire winter. Periodic applications of lotions and fancy creams to hydrate the skin were merely feeble attempts to mimick the healing of a gentle rain.

Like the tulip forcing it's way through the mulch, my skin yearned for the freedom of the air. The opportunity to feel the rain. The rain that would allow my skin to flourish. To make it glow. Just as it makes the tulips grow.

The renewal that can only be....because of the spring rain.

Mary Janet

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J.R. McGinnity
4/28/2013 12:04:09 pm

Excellent writing, Mary Janet.

It is a truly great feeling to have someone respond to my writing, and to know that they were engaged enough to continue the scene that I had started.

I hope that you continue to follow my blog and participate in my Sensory Saturday posts.

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Mary Janet
4/28/2013 12:13:06 pm

Thank you for doing this! I have always enjoyed writitng but haven't done it in a very long time. I mean...a very long time. I have encouraged my children to write and know that I do need to take the time to do it. It has always been something that made me feel good. So, again, thank you!

I look forward to more!
Mary Janet

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