Heaven Scent

Heaven Smells like Saskatchewan...by Janice Brown

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To me, Heaven energy is a smell. It has the phenomenal attributes of encapsulating you, and moving you to a different time and place, or anchoring you firmly in the now.

Not all senses can capitulate you into another era, but smell is a sweet, sweet transporter moving you through time and space and locking you into an instant. This is the magic of proximal awareness and also of translating a song straight from the heart.

Here’s my story.

There is a certain fragrance, like the perfume of a faraway grass or blossom, that I can’t see beside me or identify as a singular source. I smell this scent, and I am fixated in the moment. It lifts me higher than I can see, and my conscious mind scrambles to find the reason while the rest of me drifts on a wave of ether so divinely fragranced that I can’t find words to describe it.

I’ve been on hand and knee, sniffing every root, branch, and bough. Lifted moss and grass, wandered fields of flowers, and smelled drops of rain. I can’t tell you what it is. But I know when I smell it, and my heart says, 'Ahhh, it’s you.'

I will stop walking mid-stride and smell deeper. Quit talking mid-conversation and ask anyone near me what that smell is.

Others can smell it too, but no one has given me an answer that satisfies it, so that I can just go down the lane and buy myself a bushel when I need it.

Isn’t that a wonderful power? It reminds me of my youth, summers in Saskatchewan. But it hits me in places that are unexpected. The playground at my child’s school, the walk with my dog, a spin around the block, and even once in a while, when I just stand still in my mind and think about it.

My whole life, I’ll search for this answer, not knowing if I’ll come to understand it and see it for the thing that it is.

Maybe it’s a memory from another life.

Maybe I crossed this path before.

Maybe it’s the zigzag of my heart.

Maybe I’ll never know.

But I know this; I’ll stop and smile every time I smell it.

And I will feel quiet joy in my heart.

This is Heaven to Me.

I saw it this way.

~ A Girl

I’ve been working with the Tao as long as I’ve lived; and so have you. Here’s what that means to me, I’m a problem solver and I use the Tao as a framework for my discussion. In my writing and my work, I share with you how I use it, and you can decide if that’s helpful for you or not.

Janice writes from the Heart in the moment. She writes specifically from her point of view. You may not have seen it this way before, but that's the whole point—to turn it around and look at it another way.