Nostalgia

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    Why Do People Have Such Strong Feelings for the Portland Airport’s Carpet?

    A typical view of the Portland airport’s old carpet on social mediaMichael Morgan via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . “Take a pic of your feet on the carpet,” texted my sister. I had just landed in Portland, Oregon, to visit my siblings, and was walking to the […]
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    A Grandfather’s Final Gift Recalls a Different Way of Life

    One evening four years ago, photographer Andrea Tese received a phone call from a home-care nurse. Could she come to her grandfather’s house to assess the situation? the nurse asked. Her grandfather had been very ill and had stipulated he did not want to die inside a hospital; he wanted to stay at home. But […]
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    The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games

    Patrick Gensel via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Lately I’ve been hearing a kind of spectral music in the background of my daily life. It’s a syncopated, repeating MIDI ditty that conjures a feeling of excitement and invigorating challenge. I recently recognized it, and in the process […]