Your thoughts resonated with this woman who went last year to a 50th reunion at her college that had been permanently closed the year before. Seeing the fractured campus and decaying buildings hurt. Some folks had pried up the patio bricks we had paid to personalize in petty vandalism, but mine can stay there and I will not be back for a visit. The memories are better than the reality.
As an Illini and south burb guy, your piece resonated. "Mono no Aware" A Japanese phrase loosely meaning "the gentle sadness of the recognition of passing beauty."
Someone gave me a brick from the old Niles East High School when it was torn down. It's in my garage. I've had plenty of opportunities to toss it, but haven't yet. The older I get, the more I purge so I'm sure it'll go one day.
Your thoughts resonated with this woman who went last year to a 50th reunion at her college that had been permanently closed the year before. Seeing the fractured campus and decaying buildings hurt. Some folks had pried up the patio bricks we had paid to personalize in petty vandalism, but mine can stay there and I will not be back for a visit. The memories are better than the reality.
Those loveseats at the 400 weren't double wide, they were just one & a half seats wide.
As an Illini and south burb guy, your piece resonated. "Mono no Aware" A Japanese phrase loosely meaning "the gentle sadness of the recognition of passing beauty."
Someone gave me a brick from the old Niles East High School when it was torn down. It's in my garage. I've had plenty of opportunities to toss it, but haven't yet. The older I get, the more I purge so I'm sure it'll go one day.