Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Suerza

n.
a feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all; a sense of gratitude that you were even born in the first place, that you somehow emerged alive and breathing despite all odds, having won an unbroken streak of reproductive lotteries that stretches all the way back to the beginning of life itself.

Spanish suerte, luck + fuerza, force. Pronounced “soo-wair-zuh.”

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Hubilance

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

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Eisce

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

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain