The Significance of Cinnamon
The Significance of Cinnamon The air was pregnant with cinnamony goodness. The aroma wafted by as a vision of pregnant women holding space for children. The children delighted in the aroma and the all sensory experience of cookie making while the adults relived their carefree kitchen moments...all smiling as they came into the cinnamon cloud, a piece of peace among worlds...that space between adolescence and adulting. I have recounted more than once of a best childhood memories with my mother baking cookies, particularly chocolate chip. It was a time when I truly had her attention, when we were doing something we both enjoyed, when my mom relaxed and I anticipated the glory of licking the spatula. Obviously, it was so much more than baking. So, this cinnamon smell holds so much more than its earthy scent in the air as I bake oatmeal cookies for a picnic tomorrow. It's not just the expectation of sharing time and cookies: it's a space sifted through cinnamony memory...of oat