La Gaudière

La Gaudière

n.
a glint of goodness you notice in someone that you wouldn’t expect, which is often only detectable by sloshing them back and forth in your mind until everything dark and gray and common falls away, leaving something shining at the bottom of the pan—a rare element hidden deep in the bedrock, that must’ve been washed there by a storm somewhere upstream.

French la gaudière, from Latin gaudere, to find joy. Pronounced “lah gou-dee-yair.”

Foilsick

Mornden

Moledro

Skidding

Los Vidados

Soufrise

Zverism

Antiophobia

Lilo

Anderance

Waldosia

Immerensis

Dead Reckoning

Hanker Sore

Querinous

Fawtle

Amoransia

The Kinder Surprise

Fygophobia

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Nullness

Bareleveling

Indosentia

Dorgone

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Treachery Of The Common

Slipfast