Nostalgia

 - algia. You know it means pain, don't you?  -algia endings in English words: neuralgia, myalgia, arthralgia - nerve, muscle, bone pain. The - nostre  has to do with homecoming or return, but it's evolved over the years to remembering the past with a bit of longing and seems to have changed from something really negative to something more positive. But I can tell you for sure, nostalgia gets in the way of packing!

Today we gave away our turntable. Really, we just gotta make space. The records are fun, and there are lots of memories associated with more than a few, but of course you can stream anything and everything these days. Sadly, none of those streaming sites all of those wonderful inserts and sleeves and none of those scratchy noises that let you know it's been played and enjoyed a lot of times! Hunter has become interested in records, got a turntable from Santa a few years back and will be happy to take the records we still have off our hands. 

Then Werner came across this nugget and I had to go all nostalgia again and decide what to do. 

It looks like old 78s but the 3-record album is early 33 1/3. French lessons. I borrowed this album from my first French teacher when I went back to FSU in 1980 (?) and of course returned it to her. Soon after, the same album showed up in a friend's hand-me-downs so I grabbed it. I did listen to it a lot, practicing pronunciation and phrases and anticipating and remembering trips to France. 

Practicality won. It went to the donation box so I didn't have to actually kill it myself.  But, really, the album was no longer "Living French" but "Boy, Are You Out-dated French."