You can never go home again, or so conventional wisdom tells us. The saying â adapted from Thomas Wolfeâs âYou Canât Go Home Againâ â warns us to beware of nostalgia. Doing so can lead to disappointment akin to meeting your heroes or â worse still â sacrificing progress at the altar of a romanticized past.
Nostalgia and even a bit of surrealism has been plentiful as Iâve returned to Tupelo, where I was born, remembering growing up here and in Pontotoc.
Some of my first memories are from living on Shady Lane in Pontotoc, going to the two-screen movie theatre with Matt, who lived across the street. We would eat a dill pickle served on ice in a paper cone. It made an absolute but delicious mess.
Robert Azzi: America: We need all the light we can get
Published: 12/20/2020 6:10:53 AM
As Christian or Muslim I’ve always loved the Christmas tradition – especially strong in New England – of placing a single candle in each window of a house.
Growing up in Manchester, the candles in our windows were made by Daddy, who recycled wooden textile spools that came from the mills along the Merrimack River where many immigrants got their first jobs in America.
Daddy put sockets in them and carefully wired them so they could sit solidly on our window sills. They were turned on at sunset – off at bedtime – except on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve when Mummy insisted they stay on all night.
social warrior. is he a social warrior now? yes, still. there s a confusion that believes because someone or an entity speaks out against something wrong that means they re always right. you can still fight for what you gleave in, fight for what s right and not make every single step correctly. you can misstep. that s allowed. all part of being human. you mentioned muhammad ali. he said racy insensitive things about his opponents. that wasn t right and admitted so later in life. just because you re a social just it warrior doesn t mean that you re flawless. hmm. on all of this, i know you and i have looked at the twitter page of enes kanter with the boston celtics, very outspoken on his home country of turkey and regime, president erdogan, can t go home or see them and making that point over and over on twitter and retweeting
let s go to the editor thanks for joining us. thank you. what has this been like for the last ten days for your staff? is everybody okay physically? . they are. we had people missing for the last three or four days. we have had people lose their homes. one who doesn t know, three others who are still we evacuat and can t go home. my impression is that the fire happened so suddenly but the slow motion nature of this is why it is continuing to gain so much news coverage because peoples bodies are being found
casualty figures, are slow it to come out and do seem certain to rise, alex. it is an incredible rescue operation at this point as we saw dramatic pictures of people trapped in their homes. nbc s ian williams live in beijing. thank you for this update. we ll stay on top of this story here at msnbc. some residents are returning to their homes near a texas town rocked by a fertilizer explosion. cars formed a long line outside west, texas. residents and insurance agents were allowed in about a mile from the blast site. many of the homes were marked with a large red x indicating they were damaged beyond repair. i m sitting like, i get to go home. yay. what am i going to go home to? how many other people do i know can t go home and they re not going to have anything, and am i going to have anything? and if i do, how am i going to feel if i have something others don t? is. 14 people killed, many houses destroyed in wednesday s