kerosene coyote

nostalgia for a time you never experienced

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Petrichor (n.): a distinctive, earthy, usually pleasant odor that is associated with rainfall especially when following a warm, dry period and that arises from a combination of volatile plant oils and geosmin released from the soil into the air and by ozone carried by downdrafts.

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Hiraeth is often likened to nostalgia in English or saudade in Portuguese, and it shares qualities with the German concept of sehnsucht, but none quite match exactly. It combines elements of homesickness, nostalgia and longing. Interlaced, however, is the subtle acknowledgment of an irretrievable loss – a unique blend of place, time and people that can never be recreated. This unreachable nature adds an element of grief, but somehow it is not entirely unwelcome.

(quote from bbc.com/travel/article/20210214-the-welsh-word-you-cant-translate)

Pâro (n.): the feeling that everything you do is always somehow wrong— that there’s nothing you can eat that’s actually healthy, nothing you can say that isn’t problematic, no way to raise your kids that won’t leave them traumatized— which makes you wonder if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, “Colder... colder... colder...”

credit: the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/word/paro

my therapist thinks it's a really great thing that i'm able to process feelings through music when i can't do it with words, and i agree.

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Kenopsia (n.): The haunting quality of seeing a location typically full of people in a state of emptiness or abandonment.

see also: thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/kenopsia

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