Author: Tyler C. Pedersen
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467827169
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
My book of poetry and photographs explores Montana’s wild places and is written with a spirit that cultivates a caring relationship between humans and nature. From my book of poems and photographs you will learn to: Appreciate and enjoy what you have in the now Cultivate a caring relationship with your lifelong neighbor, Mother Nature Notice the little things around you with a smile and a laugh Use your time and energy wisely Do what you can by starting locally Be a more environmentally conscious citizen Nostalgia helps bring back memories of simpler times. Sometimes memories are evoked by our experiences in the outdoors, be it on a hike or a brief glance out the window. Although memories themselves are not tangible, the natural world that creates them is a fragile reality. This reality expresses itself in my poetry through written word and nostalgic black and white photographs, touching on subjects like squirrels, birds, ants, trees and water, while also addressing the human concepts of fame, frailty and progress. Each chapter reminds the reader of how the well being of the planet depends on the well being of our enviromental consciousness. My book seeks to strengthen you and your children’s connection to the timeless tranquility that nature affords.
Nostalgia, Naturally
Author: Tyler C. Pedersen
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467827169
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
My book of poetry and photographs explores Montana’s wild places and is written with a spirit that cultivates a caring relationship between humans and nature. From my book of poems and photographs you will learn to: Appreciate and enjoy what you have in the now Cultivate a caring relationship with your lifelong neighbor, Mother Nature Notice the little things around you with a smile and a laugh Use your time and energy wisely Do what you can by starting locally Be a more environmentally conscious citizen Nostalgia helps bring back memories of simpler times. Sometimes memories are evoked by our experiences in the outdoors, be it on a hike or a brief glance out the window. Although memories themselves are not tangible, the natural world that creates them is a fragile reality. This reality expresses itself in my poetry through written word and nostalgic black and white photographs, touching on subjects like squirrels, birds, ants, trees and water, while also addressing the human concepts of fame, frailty and progress. Each chapter reminds the reader of how the well being of the planet depends on the well being of our enviromental consciousness. My book seeks to strengthen you and your children’s connection to the timeless tranquility that nature affords.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467827169
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
My book of poetry and photographs explores Montana’s wild places and is written with a spirit that cultivates a caring relationship between humans and nature. From my book of poems and photographs you will learn to: Appreciate and enjoy what you have in the now Cultivate a caring relationship with your lifelong neighbor, Mother Nature Notice the little things around you with a smile and a laugh Use your time and energy wisely Do what you can by starting locally Be a more environmentally conscious citizen Nostalgia helps bring back memories of simpler times. Sometimes memories are evoked by our experiences in the outdoors, be it on a hike or a brief glance out the window. Although memories themselves are not tangible, the natural world that creates them is a fragile reality. This reality expresses itself in my poetry through written word and nostalgic black and white photographs, touching on subjects like squirrels, birds, ants, trees and water, while also addressing the human concepts of fame, frailty and progress. Each chapter reminds the reader of how the well being of the planet depends on the well being of our enviromental consciousness. My book seeks to strengthen you and your children’s connection to the timeless tranquility that nature affords.
Nostalgia
Author: Janelle L. Wilson
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755990
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Individuals decide, in the present, how to recall the past, and, in the process, imbue the past with meaning that has evolved over time and is relevant in the present." "Tracing the changing meanings of the term over time, considering its connection to memory, analyzing its relationship with identity, and exploring the way in which nostalgia is used personally and collectively constitute the main thrust of the book."--Jacket.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755990
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Individuals decide, in the present, how to recall the past, and, in the process, imbue the past with meaning that has evolved over time and is relevant in the present." "Tracing the changing meanings of the term over time, considering its connection to memory, analyzing its relationship with identity, and exploring the way in which nostalgia is used personally and collectively constitute the main thrust of the book."--Jacket.
Past Forward
Author: Clay Routledge, PhD
Publisher: Sounds True
ISBN: 168364865X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A leading psychological researcher shares compelling science and valuable practices for mindfully using nostalgia to live a more grounded, connected, and purposeful life. When an old song makes you want to dance like you did in high school, or you long for the comforting taste of your mom’s cooking, that’s more than just memory—it’s nostalgia. But is nostalgia all about “living in the past” to hide from reality? In Past Forward, psychologist Clay Routledge presents a fascinating investigation into an emotion we all experience yet often misunderstand, revealing nostalgia’s extraordinary potential to enrich our present—and our future. Dr. Routledge has been at the forefront of a new wave of research that has established a fresh, evidence-based view of nostalgia—not as a psychological weakness, but as a complex and valuable resource for our well-being. Here he presents a treasury of informed insights and science-based practices to help you turn nostalgia into a powerful ally, including: • Understanding nostalgia—what this feeling is and why it’s necessary for a healthy psyche • Enhancing your sense of self—how nostalgia can help you build confidence and self-esteem • Deepening connection—the possibilities and pitfalls of nostalgia as a foundation for personal and group relationships • Coping with stress—invoking the past to face present-day anxieties with clarity and resilience • Finding purpose—how nostalgic reflection can reveal your most enduring values • Moving into the future—excavating the past as a source for innovation, creativity, and hope If we approach nostalgia with awareness and discernment, we can use our cherished memories to help look outside of ourselves, connect with others, and weave a meaningful life story that supports us through difficult times. As Dr. Routledge puts it, “By engaging in nostalgia, we are not moving toward the past. We are bringing the past forward to the present to help us build a more fulfilling future.”
Publisher: Sounds True
ISBN: 168364865X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A leading psychological researcher shares compelling science and valuable practices for mindfully using nostalgia to live a more grounded, connected, and purposeful life. When an old song makes you want to dance like you did in high school, or you long for the comforting taste of your mom’s cooking, that’s more than just memory—it’s nostalgia. But is nostalgia all about “living in the past” to hide from reality? In Past Forward, psychologist Clay Routledge presents a fascinating investigation into an emotion we all experience yet often misunderstand, revealing nostalgia’s extraordinary potential to enrich our present—and our future. Dr. Routledge has been at the forefront of a new wave of research that has established a fresh, evidence-based view of nostalgia—not as a psychological weakness, but as a complex and valuable resource for our well-being. Here he presents a treasury of informed insights and science-based practices to help you turn nostalgia into a powerful ally, including: • Understanding nostalgia—what this feeling is and why it’s necessary for a healthy psyche • Enhancing your sense of self—how nostalgia can help you build confidence and self-esteem • Deepening connection—the possibilities and pitfalls of nostalgia as a foundation for personal and group relationships • Coping with stress—invoking the past to face present-day anxieties with clarity and resilience • Finding purpose—how nostalgic reflection can reveal your most enduring values • Moving into the future—excavating the past as a source for innovation, creativity, and hope If we approach nostalgia with awareness and discernment, we can use our cherished memories to help look outside of ourselves, connect with others, and weave a meaningful life story that supports us through difficult times. As Dr. Routledge puts it, “By engaging in nostalgia, we are not moving toward the past. We are bringing the past forward to the present to help us build a more fulfilling future.”
Native Nostalgia
Author: Jacob Dlamini
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1770097554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Challenging the stereotype that black people who lived under South African apartheid have no happy memories of the past, this examination into nostalgia carves out a path away from the archetypical musings. Even though apartheid itself had no virtue, the author, himself a young black man who spent his childhood under apartheid, insists that it was not a vast moral desert in the lives of those living in townships. In this deep meditation on the experiences of those who lived through apartheid, it points out that despite the poverty and crime, there was still art, literature, music, and morals that, when combined, determined the shape of black life during that era of repression.
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1770097554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Challenging the stereotype that black people who lived under South African apartheid have no happy memories of the past, this examination into nostalgia carves out a path away from the archetypical musings. Even though apartheid itself had no virtue, the author, himself a young black man who spent his childhood under apartheid, insists that it was not a vast moral desert in the lives of those living in townships. In this deep meditation on the experiences of those who lived through apartheid, it points out that despite the poverty and crime, there was still art, literature, music, and morals that, when combined, determined the shape of black life during that era of repression.
Fictions of Home
Author: Martin Mühlheim
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3772056377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home. In detailed readings of one film and six novels, a view is developed according to which home, as a spatio-temporal imaginary, is rooted in our species being, and as such constitutes the inevitable starting point for any progressive politics.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3772056377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home. In detailed readings of one film and six novels, a view is developed according to which home, as a spatio-temporal imaginary, is rooted in our species being, and as such constitutes the inevitable starting point for any progressive politics.
Yearning for Yesterday
Author: Fred Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Yesterday's Self
Author: Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461622832
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The state of being called nostalgia has a history fraught with ambiguity and poetical connotation. In the late 17th century, nostalgic reminiscences were thought to be the symptoms of a deadly disease that shook one's mind and body. Today, we view nostalgia not as a medical condition, but as a bittersweet recollection of one's past joys and sorrows—the memories and treasures of an earlier self. And yet, there remains a category of individuals for whom such recollection can be seriously problematic: immigrants. In Yesterday's Self, Andreea Ritivoi explores the philosophical and historical dimensions of nostalgia in the lives of immigrants, forging a connection between current trends in the philosophy of identity and intercultural studies. The book considers such questions as, Does attachment to one's native culture preclude or merely influence adaptation into a new culture? Do we fashion our identity in interdependence with others, or do we shape it in a non-contingent frame? Is it possible to assimilate in an unfamiliar world without risking self-alienation? Ritivoi's response: nostalgia is both the poison and the cure in such situations. Documenting the tribulations of sojourners and immigrants, Yesterday's Self illustrates how and why the cultural adjustment of immigrants can only happen when personal identity is understood as a quest for continuity in one's life story, even alongside the most radical cultural rupture. Ultimately, reflection on the nostalgic experience reveals insights into the nature of the self and its dynamic engagement with otherness and difference.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461622832
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The state of being called nostalgia has a history fraught with ambiguity and poetical connotation. In the late 17th century, nostalgic reminiscences were thought to be the symptoms of a deadly disease that shook one's mind and body. Today, we view nostalgia not as a medical condition, but as a bittersweet recollection of one's past joys and sorrows—the memories and treasures of an earlier self. And yet, there remains a category of individuals for whom such recollection can be seriously problematic: immigrants. In Yesterday's Self, Andreea Ritivoi explores the philosophical and historical dimensions of nostalgia in the lives of immigrants, forging a connection between current trends in the philosophy of identity and intercultural studies. The book considers such questions as, Does attachment to one's native culture preclude or merely influence adaptation into a new culture? Do we fashion our identity in interdependence with others, or do we shape it in a non-contingent frame? Is it possible to assimilate in an unfamiliar world without risking self-alienation? Ritivoi's response: nostalgia is both the poison and the cure in such situations. Documenting the tribulations of sojourners and immigrants, Yesterday's Self illustrates how and why the cultural adjustment of immigrants can only happen when personal identity is understood as a quest for continuity in one's life story, even alongside the most radical cultural rupture. Ultimately, reflection on the nostalgic experience reveals insights into the nature of the self and its dynamic engagement with otherness and difference.
Nostalgic
Author: Jay H Khetani
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1647606047
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Nostalgic breaks down the life journey of a human being’s relationships and the consequences faced in relationships due to certain behavior. We don’t give thought to these situations, thus ruin relationships over and over. However, the author has done his best to direct your thoughts towards it, make you feel Nostalgic, and has provided solutions to help you perform better in any relationship.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1647606047
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Nostalgic breaks down the life journey of a human being’s relationships and the consequences faced in relationships due to certain behavior. We don’t give thought to these situations, thus ruin relationships over and over. However, the author has done his best to direct your thoughts towards it, make you feel Nostalgic, and has provided solutions to help you perform better in any relationship.
The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home
Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book Review Has the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns it resembles, Akron, Ohio, has lost its singularity, and much of what native-daughter Pierson loves about it. She then moves to Hoboken, New Jersey, a forgotten appendage of New Yorkuntil stockbrokers discover it. Finally, she speaks of rural areas, telling of the thousands of upstate New Yorkers displaced by city reservoirs. A unique book uniquely of our moment: This is what it feels like to lose the place you love.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393345386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book Review Has the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns it resembles, Akron, Ohio, has lost its singularity, and much of what native-daughter Pierson loves about it. She then moves to Hoboken, New Jersey, a forgotten appendage of New Yorkuntil stockbrokers discover it. Finally, she speaks of rural areas, telling of the thousands of upstate New Yorkers displaced by city reservoirs. A unique book uniquely of our moment: This is what it feels like to lose the place you love.
Homesickness
Author: Susan J. Matt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199707448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of colonists, explorers, pioneers, soldiers, and immigrants who supposedly left home and never looked back. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, medical records, and psychological studies, this wide-ranging book uncovers the profound pain felt by Americans on the move from the country's founding until the present day. Susan Matt shows how colonists in Jamestown longed for and often returned to England, African Americans during the Great Migration yearned for their Southern homes, and immigrants nursed memories of Sicily and Guadalajara and, even after years in America, frequently traveled home. These iconic symbols of the undaunted, forward-looking American spirit were often homesick, hesitant, and reluctant voyagers. National ideology and modern psychology obscure this truth, portraying movement as easy, but in fact Americans had to learn how to leave home, learn to be individualists. Even today, in a global society that prizes movement and that condemns homesickness as a childish emotion, colleges counsel young adults and their families on how to manage the transition away from home, suburbanites pine for their old neighborhoods, and companies take seriously the emotional toll borne by relocated executives and road warriors. In the age of helicopter parents and boomerang kids, and the new social networks that sustain connections across the miles, Americans continue to assert the significance of home ties. By highlighting how Americans reacted to moving farther and farther from their roots, Homesickness: An American History revises long-held assumptions about home, mobility, and our national identity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199707448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of colonists, explorers, pioneers, soldiers, and immigrants who supposedly left home and never looked back. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, medical records, and psychological studies, this wide-ranging book uncovers the profound pain felt by Americans on the move from the country's founding until the present day. Susan Matt shows how colonists in Jamestown longed for and often returned to England, African Americans during the Great Migration yearned for their Southern homes, and immigrants nursed memories of Sicily and Guadalajara and, even after years in America, frequently traveled home. These iconic symbols of the undaunted, forward-looking American spirit were often homesick, hesitant, and reluctant voyagers. National ideology and modern psychology obscure this truth, portraying movement as easy, but in fact Americans had to learn how to leave home, learn to be individualists. Even today, in a global society that prizes movement and that condemns homesickness as a childish emotion, colleges counsel young adults and their families on how to manage the transition away from home, suburbanites pine for their old neighborhoods, and companies take seriously the emotional toll borne by relocated executives and road warriors. In the age of helicopter parents and boomerang kids, and the new social networks that sustain connections across the miles, Americans continue to assert the significance of home ties. By highlighting how Americans reacted to moving farther and farther from their roots, Homesickness: An American History revises long-held assumptions about home, mobility, and our national identity.