Cassette Tapes and Madeleines

Memory, ritual, and the mundane

Are you old enough to remember seeing something like this on the side of the road from time to time?

Well, you probably are, because even I am. A couple of years ago, I saw loose cassette tape fluttering in the wind, along the side of the road, for the first time in almost 20 years. It was one of those totally random, not really important things that bro…