Nostalgia
Maybe you've seen this scene from Madmen as the Kodak Carousel is introduced. If not, go here and watch it and then come back to the blog. In Greek, nostalgia literally means, a pain from an old wound . In someways, this blog has been about nostalgia. Even those topics of current inspiration draw life from the past. You never escape where you came from or who you were. We change, we grow but somehow the past is always with us beckoning us to remember. I think the pain we feel as we recall the past is cause not by the wound by knowing we can't go back. We see visions of the past and we want to go back. We want to go back not because we made some horrible mistake and need a do-over. Rather we want to go back to experience the joy, the wonderment, the excitement, or any of the myriad of human emotions that can explode at anytime. While a small substitute for time travel back to that moment, a memory can cause us to relive such joy and so...