Welcome to her neverland, where words come alive and breathe as we do. It is here that she actively builds her collection, for they hold more value than the richest of treasures, more power than the strongest of men. Remember, "If you wish to know her mind, listen to her words."

  • Apodyopsis: the act of mentally undressing someone
  • Atelophobia: the fear of imperfection, of not being good enough
  • Athazagoraphobia: the fear of being forgotten or ignored
  • Ayurnamat: the philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed
  • Basorexia: the overwhelming desire to kiss
  • Bilita Mpash: the opposite of a nightmare; not merely a good dream, but a legendary, blissful state where all is forgiven and forgotten
  • Boketto: the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking
  • Cafuné: the act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair
  • Chantepleure: to sing and cry at the same time
  • Cwtch: the feeling of a safe place or home that a hug, cuddle, or snuggle gives
  • Dépaysement: when someone is taken out of their own familiar world into a new one; the unsteady feeling of being a foreigner
  • Dérive: a spontaneous journey where the traveller leaves their life behind for a time to let the spirit of the landscape & architecture attract and move them
  • Dor: longing for someone you love very much
  • Duende: the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person
  • Eigenlicht: the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness
  • Eleutheromania: an intense and irresistible desire for freedom
  • Elysian: beautiful or creative, divinely inspired
  • Eunoia: beautiful thinking, a well mind
  • Fernweh: an ache for distant places
  • Feuillemort: the color of a dying leaf
  • Flâneur: one who wanders aimlessly; a person who walks the city in order to experience it
  • Forelsket: the euphoria you experience when you're first falling in love
  • Frisson: a shiver of thrill or pleasure
  • Gaman: enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity
  • Gigil: the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
  • Gökotta: rising in the early morning to hear the first birdsong
  • Gumusservi: the light of the moon as it shines upon water
  • Hiraeth: homesickness for a place you can never return to, or that never was
  • Honne: what a person truly believes; the behavior and opinions which are often kept hidden
  • Hyggelig: cozy, homy, delightfully intimate; a genial moment or thing, often at home with candle lights and warm blankets
  • Ilunga: a person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time, tolerate it the second time, but never a third time
  • Kalon: beauty that is more than skin-deep
  • Kalopsia: the delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are
  • Koi No Yokan: the sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love
  • Komorebi: the way sunlight filters through leaves from above
  • Koselig: something that gives you a very deep sense of warmth inside; cosy and comforting
  • Kutitap: the glittering, sparkling, and scintillating flashes of tiny, numerous lights
  • Lagom: not too much or too little; just right
  • L’esprit de l’escalier: the feeling you get when you leave a conversation and think of all the things you should have said
  • Litost: a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery
  • Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something they both desire but which neither wants to begin
  • Manqué: having failed to become what one might have been
  • Meraki: doing something with soul, creativity, or love
  • Metanoia: the journey of changing one's mind, heart, self, or way of life
  • Mono no aware: the pathos of things; the gentle wistfulness at the transience of things, and the awareness of the sadness of existence
  • Mottainai: the painful longing for things that have been lost
  • Mudita: pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being
  • Murr-ma: to walk alongside the water while searching for something with your feet
  • Nefelibata: "cloud-walker," one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination or dreams
  • Nemophilist: a haunter of the woods; one who loves the forest and its beauty and solitude
  • Noceur: one who sleeps late or not at all; one who stays out late to party or revel
  • Onsra: to love for the last time
  • Orenda: the power of human will to change the world
  • Petrichor: the scent of rain on dry earth
  • Philophobia: the fear of being in love and falling in love
  • Poppysmic: the sound produced by smacking one's lips together
  • Psithurism: the sound of the wind through trees
  • Raconteur: a talented storyteller
  • Resfeber: the restless race of the traveller's heart before the journey begins
  • Retrouvailles: the happiness of meeting someone after a long time
  • Ruska: the phenomenon of leaves turning shades of red, yellow, purple, and brown during the autumn season
  • Saudade: an intense, constant longing for something that does not and probably cannot exist
  • Schadenfreude: joy in the suffering of others
  • Sehnsucht: a sense of longing; a nostalgia for something that can still happen
  • Seigneur-terraces: coffee shop dwellers who sit at tables for a long time but spend little money
  • Serein: rain falling from a cloudless sky
  • Shibusa: simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty
  • Sirimiri: a light rain; a fine drizzle
  • Sisu: strength of will, determination, perseverance; action rationally in the face of adversity
  • Soigné: possessing an aura of sophistication in dress, manner, or design
  • Tacenda: things better left unsaid; matters to be passed over in silence
  • Tatemae: what a person pretends to believe; the behavior and opinions one must display to satisfy society's demands
  • Tête-à-tête: a private and intimate conversation between two people
  • Torschlusspanik: the fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages
  • Trouvaille: a lucky find; something lovely discovered by chance
  • Ukiyo: the floating world; a place of fleeting beauty and living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life
  • Verschlimmbessern: to make something worse when trying to improve it
  • Voorpret: "pre-fun;" the sense of enjoyment one feels before an event has actually taken place
  • Wabi-sabi: finding perfection or beauty within life’s imperfections and recognizing that they are a part of something larger
  • Waldeinsamkeit: the feeling of being peacefully alone in the woods
  • Wanderlust: a strong desire or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world
  • Ya'aburnee: the declaration of one’s wishes that they will die before another person because it would be impossible to live without them
  • Yakamoz: the reflection of the moon as it shines upon the water
  • Yuánfèn: a relationship by fate or destiny; the binding force between two people
  • Yūgen: an awareness of the universe that triggers feelings too deep to be put into words
  • Zemblanity: the inevitable discovery of what we would rather not know
may 2 2014 ∞
jan 5 2016 +