Trumspringa

Trumspringa

n.
the longing to wander off your career track in pursuit of a simple life—tending a small farm in a forest clearing, keeping a lighthouse on a secluded atoll, or becoming a shepherd in the mountains—which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.

German Stadtzentrum, “city center” + Pennsylvania German Rumspringa, “hopping around.” Rumspringa is a putative tradition in which Amish teens dip their toes in modernity for a while before choosing whether to commit to the traditional way of life. Pronounced “truhm-spring-guh.”

Idlewild

Mahpiohanzia

Elsewise

Volander

Foreclearing

Exulansis

Zielschmerz

Jouska

Gobo

Harmonoia

Merrenness

Trumspringa

The Til

Scabulous

Slipfast

Plata Rasa

Ghough

The Kick Drop

Ironsick

a group of random devices

Treachery Of The Common

Fawtle

Flichtish

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Redesis

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Punt Kick

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench