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Xanadu, what an utterly unique and radically awesome (at least according to the 1980's musical...Where time stops and the magic never ends.) word. It's origins tend to come from Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem "Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment". In it He describes Xanadu, the the summer capital of the Mongol… Continue reading Word Nerd: Xanadu
Hiraeth (pronounced hee-raee) is an absolutely glorious Welsh term that can be translated loosely into English as "longing", yet it's true meaning has a great deal more nuance to it then simple longing. Hiraeth describes a deep, inborn sense of yearning for a home, a feeling, a place or person that is beyond this plane… Continue reading Word Nerd: Hiraeth
Diaphanous is one of those utterly delicious descriptive words that I adore sprinkling about my conversations. The word alone sounds every bit as divine as it's meaning, I mean by just saying diaphanous denotes a sense of delicate elegance. The air on an early, clear Spring day has a sort of diaphanous quality to it… Continue reading Word Nerd: Diaphanous
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