A few posts ago, nostalgia was threatening to unravel me...it still is. But, two recent posts by my bloggadictions--Living Guyana, and Guyana Gyal--reminded me that nostalgia doesn't have to be sad and enveloping.
Guyana Gyal reminds me that nostalgia can be fleeting and airy as stepping on "stones so loose you got to step on them quick and light then leap off fast, on to the next."
And the Living Guyana blogger reaffirms that the sense of loss we associate with nostalgia can be empowering and enlightening. Contemplating the ruins of a downed gamma cherry tree, the blogger writes, "Every chop onto those gamma cherry trunks reinforced for us how perspectives have changed, how the danger of serious ecological damage has heightened and how so much more fragile is the environment in which we trod, sleep, work and play."
Thanks Living Guyana and Guyana Gyal. You have both helped to lessen my sadness. I continue to be addicted.
