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.”

Hobsmacked

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Insoucism

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Hemeisis

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Dorgone

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

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Heartmoor

a campfire with a kettle many small logs