Charlie Allen's final CAWS ~ Part 1

* Although Charlie intended this to be one long post, I'm splitting it into three parts and will present one part each day for the rest of this week. ~ Leif


"SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES, HAVING YOU TO TALK WITH...."


There we go again....back to songs and nostalgia. A great tune nevertheless....going back to Guy Lombardo and others. By the way, I've no doubt inflicted a word-study on 'nostalgia' before on the viewers....but hang in, cats! Age deserves tolerance, or so I'm told, and where else can we get a brief art and English lesson so conveniently? From the ancient Greek, 'nost' means 'a return' or 'to return'. In ancient Greek it means 'pain'. A 'painful return'. Not the way we think of 'nostalgia' is it? Think about it though... if it's a happy memory, you can't go back and and repeat it. If it's an unhappy memory, you can't go back and fix or change it. So much for language lessons! But.... each one of the old proofs has a lesson or two to offer.