Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling.

Recently, one of the city council members wanted to put a recreation center in the middle of an open-space park. Once the word got out, that person lost their re-election campaign.

A miscalculation. Not because building a recreation center is necessarily a bad idea. It has its pros and cons. It’s because that park hasn’t changed since the 1950s.

And that feeling for those who have been here a long time is a reminder of a time that was. Not every improvement is an improvement. Sometimes the right improvement is not to keep changing things. But to leave things precisely as they are to remind us where we came from.