I’ve been reading a lot of stuff I’ve read before. And listening to stuff I’ve heard before.
Some of it is like a warm hug, a familiar reminder, a keyhole into a presence I once had, discovering the music all over again.
Some is it is tedious and hasn’t aged well.
Once again, I find myself thinking of a way back – to a feeling I used to have, or a way forward from a feeling I didn’t want.
Nostalgia doesn’t suit us; it can be revealing. I’m yet to be certain that’s a bad thing, or a good one.
All I know is we want what we can’t have, we want what we used to have, and we want everything else instead.
Target: 200 words
Written: 783 words, short story: Get Back Again
Read: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach (starts well, turns into generic mystical bullshit)
Comics: Fanboys Vs. Zombies 5-8
Music: Yer Favourites, Tragically Hip (gave me my #VeryCanadianMoment as I slid around in the snow on the way to my free health care with Bobcaygeon and Nautical Disaster blasting over the speakers. If I'd been apologizing to someone with a hockey bag and a two-four in the back, I'd have broken the Canadian stereotype meter permanently. Before you ask, I was already wearing a toque).