Patched Out: When the Passage of Time Plasters Over Nostalgia

A short read, brought back by some old memories of my childhood home:

I recently did some straightening up around my apartment and stumbled on an old piece of nostalgia. Tucked behind some of my painting supplies, I found an old weather stick. If you’ve never had one: it’s a twig cut from a balsam fir that sticks up when the weather will be good, and straight down when bad.

Without any humidity to speak of, they don’t real…