Perhaps especially when life seems, as the poet Robert Frost put it, “too much like a pathless wood,” it’s common enough to allow our overworked imaginations to wander back to simpler times. And perhaps not just by resting in a couple of nice memories, but also by seeing them quilted into a more wholistic sense of nostalgia—the past times were something, weren’t they? The psychologist Clay Routledge, an expert on nostalgia, tells us that while we might see nostalgia as […]
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