hiraeth
noun
A Welsh longing for home that you cannot return to, or that never was.
Driving back through the town I grew up in. Everything smaller than I remembered. Missing something I couldn't name.
Welsh
A word found you
liminal
adjective
Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a threshold or boundary.
The airport at 4am. Between the life I had and the one I was flying toward. Neither yet.
Latin: limen, threshold
A word stops you in a book.
Someone names a feeling you have carried for years.
You write it down. It vanishes by morning.
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