Riehlife Writing Idea: Sensory Scan as Memory Prompt

When Jake Lorfing and I were talking yesterday about some long ago work I felt would be worthy writing material, he said, “But I don’t remember anything; it’s too long ago.”
I suggested he do a Sensory Scan. You can do this, too.
1) Take each sense in turn: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
2) Scan each sense. [...]