I love this quote from author Rebecca Solnit: “What the very young see is literally incomparable—nothing like it has come before—and these encounters are the raw material, the imagery of their psyches.” Seasons, sounds, smells, the touch of emotion all bring this raw material—the imagery of our psyche—right back to us. Imagine: The first bite into a summer strawberry, the first snowfall of winter, the smell of grass in late spring or the sound of kids yelping “trick or treat” at Halloween. We think childhood is long ago and far away, that mental cobwebs drape over that earlier time of...