to compensate for my lack of formal literary education this semester, i've been learning new words from a blog called otherwordly. a recent good find is fernweh, which is defined as "wanderlust, a strong desire for or impulse to wander, or, in modern usage, to travel and explore the world." i've caught this bug. i'm itching to dive into the world and stumble my way through somewhere foreign. i'm getting too comfortable. i need to stretch.
some other great words i highly recommend are:
retrouvaille: the joy of meeting or finding someone again after a long separation; rediscovery
euneirophrenia: the peace of mind that comes from having pleasant dreams
adoxography: beautiful writing on a subject of little or no importance
sehnsucht: "the inconsolable longing in the human heart for what we know not what"; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one's home
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