What do you get when you combine nostalgia with homesicknes...

March 8, 2023
hiraeth
Yes...hiraeth. That's what you get. More than nostalgia. Our pasts are full of lost places, places we'll never be in again. And not just homes, like this one, the...
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Reaching back to the carefree innocence of the past

October 11, 2021
mourning
Isn't this an eye-catching image? What I love most is the sense of carefree ease it conveys to me, at a time I really long for that kind of carefree innocence. That's...
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What do we do with our stuff…& our nostalgia?

June 27, 2019
nostalgia
I've tried to stay as far away as possible from Marie Kondo's book on organizing, even though I badly need help. My brain just does not think in an organized way and...
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5 Comments · Blog, Soul School

The difficulty of being human

January 17, 2017
hiraeth
A week after I watched his documentary, The Last Man on the Moon, and days after I saw the film, Hidden Figures, astronaut Gene Cernan died. I'm having a hard time...
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The whisper of cottonwoods

January 3, 2017
Debbie-Reynolds
When I heard the late Debbie Reynolds singing Tammy on the radio the other day, I felt something visceral in her wistful rendition, a heart-breaking nostalgia...
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Dreaming

August 16, 2016
dreamer
I was watching a documentary the other day about something that happened more than 80 years ago. Looking at the faces of the people in the program I saw an innocence and...
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Lost places of our past

February 19, 2016
homesickness
On the phone with one of our nephews the other day I was hit hard by hiraeth, a form of homesickness that I couldn't put words to until I ran into this word. Hiraeth....
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In the future, remembering days past

May 15, 2015
It was 1967 and I was 16 years old when I heard the opening lines of Nights in White Satin. And then, the heavily orchestrated music of the Moody Blues began: Nights...
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How do you see this generational difference?

May 5, 2015
Greatest-Generation
Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation is dying off, I'm sad to say. My parents were members and as I look at photographs of them pre- and post-World War II, I'm fascinated...
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Love those who treat you right…

April 15, 2015
love-quotes
Love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. I'd make a tweak in that "Love the people who treat you right."   I'd say "Love everyone. But...
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23 Comments · Blog, Soul School

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