“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
"'Yes, Piglet?'
"'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
This post is a collaborative effort between A.A. Milne, my lovely friends Marymargaret and Lara Serene, and me. I guess you could call this sentimentality, but it is really nostos algos, a longing for home.
"The Greek word for 'return' is nostos. Algos means 'suffering'. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return" (Milan Kundera). If I were forced to pick a musical selection for this today, it would have to be There is a light that never goes out.
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