To ruminate and/or reminesce (longingly and perhaps with no
small sense of loss) as to something or
someone no longer available or present as it once was.
to ruminesce; perhaps exemplified in the emotional ode to Chrissy Hynde's vanished home:
"I went back to Ohio
But my
pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a
government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the
air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Said Ay! Oh! Where did you go, Ohio?"