Nementia
The post-distraction effort to recall the reason why you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, in which…
Lalalalia
The realization while talking to yourself that someone else is within earshot, which leads you to crossfade into…
Apomakrysmenophobia
The fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the…
Flashover
The moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the…
Discover You
Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life…
Make A Difference
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here…
Ecstatic Shock
The surge of energy upon catching a glance from someone you like—a thrill that starts in your stomach,…
Do Not Delete!
Delete, delete, delete-that’s what we have been doing all along.Writings, memories, people- we have been deleting them all;on…
It Hurts
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or…
Ballagàrraidh
The awareness that you are not at home in the wilderness. The story of humanity is a move…
La gaudière
The glint of goodness inside people, which you can only find by sloshing them back and forth in…
Hiybbprqag
The feeling that everything original has already been done, that the experiment of human culture long ago filled…
Aimonomia
Fear that learning the name of something—a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger—will somehow ruin it, transforming a…
Altschmerz
The weariness with same old issues that you’ve always had—the same boring flaws and anxieties you’ve been gnawing…