{"id":11746,"date":"2025-08-08T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=11746"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:39:47","slug":"nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2025\/08\/08\/nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3bcf3518674a676d2e22adb56c1f1a5d\"><strong>by Belen Dougherty, Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-844b3cd983c96a882aae52b51fc300c1\">Nostalgia comes like the dewy late summer mornings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8a605f894afbb0444a437417503baffb\">Brisk and cool, whispering softly \u201csummer is still here\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-15e627263434f935fb7e59c790554648\">but I feel it slowly slipping away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-106659d172cb77743488df2a7272cdbf\">I take a deep breath and smell the sweet wet green grass while&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cef0959f514fd2103a7cf3d934544178\">my eyes sweep through the rhythmic colors the sun brushes through<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d25ace487a67fa76b5d6b761785a8e73\">my backyard, immersing me in the fall days ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-69675d2897e01304ad19fd0fe7e53c96\">I hesitate. I am not ready. I\u2019m in between.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c1f37968c48767f6db007411ef996c57\">Between burning marshmallows on the crackling fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-89718b15bbba498bbff4445e120baa35\">and back to school shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-01334cf7da83424e547f2789cd58b130\">The sun goes to bed a little earlier. The kids are still<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f2f0a7cd87beeb5454dcd3f042fa9e49\">restless, begging to stay up late.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5b0614e77542170829ee81f6c9d136b9\">In this moment, as I stand still, summer passes through me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-fe5b179a695072c1e625954d06688131\">I see, feel, hear the season\u2019s air crackling with change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-fd772cfbb259af99c53947bd3d5fbd45\">Once again time moves through me like the seasons move through time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-87bfd04d16d7fe4a0914c5c027b1f17a\">So I stay here in this fleeting moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Belen Dougherty, Staff Writer Nostalgia comes like the dewy late summer mornings, Brisk and cool, whispering softly \u201csummer is still here\u201d&nbsp; but I feel it slowly slipping away. 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