Hello Void
that night we met in a maze.
sweat, stale smoke,
sticky floor.
two people. one year ago.
alley, moonlight,
gust of wind.
organs fused, bursting,
passion plunged
in an ice bath, drowned, stiff.
Hello precious angel,
I found Annie, two blankets, and a pillow.
"You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."
Steve Jobs
Hello Grumpy Cat is being usurped by quokka in my most adorable fuzzy animal on the face of the planet book.
I mean, he’s smizing!
Hello roommate taking photos of a deathly ill, sleeping person and her nursemaid.
Tongue and Tech: The Many Emotions for Which English Has No Words [The Atlantic]
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude
Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist
Forelsket (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
Gigil (pronounced Gheegle; Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
Litost (Czech): A state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery
Manja (Malay): “To pamper,” it describes gooey, childlike, and coquettish behavior by women designed to elicit sympathy or pampering by men
Pena ajena (Mexican Spanish): The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation
Sgriob (Gaelic): The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky
Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively
Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): To borrow objects one by one from a neighbor’s house until there is nothing left
Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods
L’esprit de l’escalier (French): Usually translated as “staircase wit,” the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it
Hello waldeinsamkeit, mostly.
Hello Unicorn duel. #mine
Fuzzy Animal Friday!!
Pygmy albino hedgehog is made for loving.
