Hubilance

Hubilance

n.
the quiet poignance of your own responsibility for someone, with a mix of pride and fear and love and humility—feeling a baby fall asleep on your chest, or driving at night surrounded by loved ones fast asleep, who trust you implicitly with their lives—a responsibility that wasn’t talked about or assigned to you, it was assumed to be yours without question.

From hub, the central part of the wheel that bears the weight + jubilance. Pronounced “hyoo-buh- luhns.”

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Fawtle

Cover image for the Fawtle word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Allope

Cover image for the Allope word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows