Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Karanoia

n.
the terror of the blank page, which can feel both liberating and confining, in both the limitlessness of its potential and the looseness of its boundaries.

Japanese 空の (kara-no), blank. Pronounced “kar-uh-noi-uh.”

Adronitis

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

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Insoucism

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

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest