nostalgia appears to be a longing for a place but is actually a yearning for a different time—the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time, the time of history and progress. The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or collective... See more

Forgetting is sacred too and necessary, but I don’t understand why yet, not really, not fully, not with the whole chest. I think I want to remember Heaven, but I keep forgetting her. I remember her for 20 minutes each day, but that’s not good enough.