https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2016/12/december-notes.html Author Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2016/12/december-notes.html#comment-1492 Jerry Dennis Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:53:03 +0000 http://jerrydennis.net/?p=2482#comment-1492 I’m sure I would feel the same, Kevin. Do you know the French term, le mal du pays? It’s sometimes translated as “melancholy” or “homesickness,” but novelist Haruki Murakami says it is more accurately: “the groundless sadness called into the heart by a pastoral landscape.” There’s another term that might apply as well, this one from my friend Jim Edkahl of L’Anse, MI, who worked with a fellow Yooper years ago who described his moods of melancholy, uprootedness, or discontent as “the mung peckeroo.”

]]> https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2016/12/december-notes.html#comment-1491 Kevin Krause Sat, 24 Dec 2016 03:18:49 +0000 http://jerrydennis.net/?p=2482#comment-1491 Is it wrong, Jerry, to miss something only described by someone else?… I wish too often that I have not forgone the Northwoods snows for the vagaries of rain on the west coast…

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