Gee, it’s good to be back home, again

July 10, 2024
back-home
Oh, to be able to step into a time machine and revisit the old days. What is it that's so alluring about the past? Is it the innocence of youth, when the world hangs...
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10 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Travel

Fly Delta jets

June 17, 2024
fly-Delta-jets
Fly Delta jets. An odd choice for a blog post, right? A five-hour airport layover gives you plenty of time to think. And in my case I was staring out the window...
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11 Comments · Blog, Travel

Talkin’ ’bout my generation..

May 8, 2024
my-generation
When I was younger, I had neither time nor the inclination for nostalgia. There was no past--just the present. The young present. The "now" of my generation. But...
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5 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

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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16 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Spirituality

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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35 Comments · Blog, Soul School

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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15 Comments · Blog

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