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Homesickness can be resolved by returning home
In my experience, returning home is not possible. It's not just a place, but a time and a place, and people. And that time has been lost, except in memories. And that place is quite different today. And those people have passed on. Oh, well, we have the present ...
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Thanks, eta; your link shows what it looked like the kids were wearing. And, jheem, The memories themselve are happy, but the longing is not. hit my point exactly: would we ever be nostalgic for a time when we were unhappy? Your post just above also hit home (eh, no pun intended) for me: returning home is not possible. It's not just a place, but a time and a place, and people. Graduate school was one of the most intense, and intensely rewarding, experiences in my life, and I was quite saddened when I realized at the end that, even if we all turned around right then and did it all over again, with all the same students and all the same teachers, it wouldn't be the same. SIGH...
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A saying about the Irish: "All their wars are merry and all their songs are sad" This just popped into my head when I read the discussion. Now what made that happen? And what possible relevance does it have? It's gonna be one of those days, isn't it?
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I would say an apron is tied round the waist, while a similar garment with a bib tied round the neck could be an apron or pinnie. As it happened I was having dinner with some friends last night, and our host greeted us wearing such a garment. After some discussion, we all (males in our 40s and 50s from the UK and Australia) agreed that our mothers might well refer to it as a pinny. Those with kids opined that their daughters would not.
Father Steve, your link requests a member name and password.
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Father Steve, your link requests a member name and password.
If one smushes the "cancel" button five times, the little box requiring a password goes away and one may read the detailed and interesting article.
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By using the masonic handshake I got access to the text but not alas to the illustrations.
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Dear Jheem
Is this the same as Portuguese, or has it evolved its own vocabulary in Brasil?
cheer
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It's also Portuguese, as far as I know, shanks. Fado music is full of saudade.
I'll check and make sure.
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