Why this word is great
WOODSMOKE — [Noun] The visible suspension of particles produced by the combustion of wood. From Old English wudu ("tree, forest") and smoca ("vapor from burning"). Unlike "smog" (which chokes cities with industrial exhaust) or "incense" (which perfumes temples with intention), woodsmoke is the scent of survival, of hearths and human hands. It is the blue-gray curl rising from a cabin chimney at dusk, the charred tang clinging to wool after an evening by the fire, the way a distant bonfire carries on autumn air—suddenly you are eight years old again, standing by your grandfather’s woodstove, watching him feed split logs into the flames. All warmth is borrowed; all light leaves ashes.