Nostalgia
Fall 2019
Are your memories living things? Do they call to you of family dinners before your brother moved away, when your grandparents were still alive, when getting to feed the fish in the koi pond behind the restaurant was a noteworthy event? Maybe it's a place, one you loved as a child, but you know if you ever return, it will be completely changed? Is it yearning for the feeling of having the whole world open to you, no choices irrevocably made, your whole life in front of vou? Is it a smell. one that transports vou to last time vou saw vour childhood best friend? Mavbe it's just a moment: a moment vou knew wouldn't last as it happened, the kind that you can feel as is resonates with the nostalgia for your future past. Nostalgia follows us every day as we walk through a minefield of our own memories. At its core, nostalgia is what lies at the place where love, longing, and grief intersect. It is painful, but laced with warmth, and allows us to trace our roots. We asked our community for nostalgia, and they delivered. So please enjoy the memories, both familiar, and unknown.
– Katie McGowan and Nina Dietz
Font and Back Cover: Wenkai Wang @wen_kai_w
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