Keta

Keta

n.
a random image from your distant past that leaps back into your attention, that doesn’t mean much of anything but is somehow able to keep fighting against the current, swimming back and forth in your mind, still developing.

After a species of salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, which “run” upstream to spawn every year, leaping back to the place they were born; they’re not worth much commercially, but the ketas don’t know that. When we look back on our lives, it’s not just the moments that we remember, not the grand gestures and catered ceremonies, or the world we capture poised and smiling in photos. It’s the little things—the minutes—the cheap raw material of ordinary time. Pronounced “kay-tuh.”

Mithenness

Alpha Exposure

Affogatia

Amentalio

Heart Of Aces

Vellichor

Keyframe

Present-Tense

Anchorage

Énouement

Fellchaser

Lisolia

Zysia

Austice

Emorries

Etterath

Anticious

Enterhood

Malotype

Anaphasia

Hem-Jawed

Irrition

Antiophobia

Rivener

Epistrix

Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

Nachlophobia