Streams and flows

Though saddened when I have realized that I have no time to write my essay for a newsletter, I found some comfort in the thought that I could write it for a later date, at my pace. Under the pressure to ponder the texts within a limited time frame, analyze and synthesize them, and shape up a reasonably literary input, I would have come up with rambling, unfinished thoughts. Yet, one major benefit of skimming those texts is that I found, amongst many others, an evolutionary perspective on the nature of the relationship between different groups’ expressed perceptions of environmental issues and their political weight in our society. Librarians may be interested in this nature, or rather its dynamics, but I am not quite sure if they can influence it, or on which side they should be. (Well, I am allowed to guess, but I’ll keep that to myself for now.)

 

I have tried to find the subject heading for a concept, quite familiar though, but rather difficult to express in a few words that would describe it well. It is a concept which could be regarded from at least two facets: one’s present casts a gloom over one’s life, and, thus, one catches a straw of  felicitous, past memories, as if, in moments of despair, the straw itself  grows into a twig. Would it be that this psychological state touches the border between pathology and nostalgia (in the LCC lingo, the concept that I am thinking about covers simultaneously some well-defined areas of the BF and RC schedules)? Have to give some more thought to that, but, undoubtedly, that would be a difficult reference question.