But California is starting to look more like New England than the fun-and-sun version of itself many of us keep in our memories, said Hans Johnson, a demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California.
"All those years we played together, you know it's somehow, it's made a very deep groove in our memories, and it doesn't take much to lock in, " Harrison said in an interview included in the anthology.
So what people -- most people I think recognize as the worst downturn in our economy in most memories -- 1981 -- combining that with the most previous two doesn't equal the downturn in the economy that we saw.
That way, we can stretch the perceived time of our vacations, expand our memories in a youthful-like way, and return home with more creative ideas.
In other words, memories of a single occurrence in our lives can easily feel like the exception, rather than the rule.
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And buried in all that content are our memories: photos, videos, quotes, notes, essays, emails, and moments we want to hold onto forever.
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We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.
To me, Social Memories is another flashpoint in our adjustment into a fully digital culture.
Like sunshine stealing back the colours from a poster in a window, history often turns our memories into black and white.
But among all the memories I have of our years in the Hamptons, some of my strongest don't have to do with sand, surf or even food.
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The shaky camera wearies the eye but beguiles the mind, as if the filmmakers, aping the style of home movies, were also borrowing their function and fabricating sweet memories before our eyes, indulging in nostalgia for the present.
Because of this, it seems to me that in the past decade or so, the half-life of our memories has become artificially extended.
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Most importantly, what memories do we want to live on in the recollections of our friends, children, and grandchildren?
And I think his message of ensuring that our enduring way of government moves forward in a way that best honors the memories of those that were victims of this tragedy, as well as those that we look forward to seeing recover.
"The images of Thusha dancing happily in the Stockwell Food and Wine are images that many of us will struggle to erase from our memories, " said Det.
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One of my wife's fondest memories was going to a toy store somewhere in Florida during the primary there to get our youngest a Barbie doll.
And this housing crisis struck right at the heart of what it means to be middle class in America: our homes -- the place where we invest our nest egg, place where we raise our family, the place where we plant roots in a community, the place where we build memories.
The premise is simple: 2009 may have slipped through our fingers, but all the memories of gadgets-past are still with us (some in a more favorable light than others).
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