“This Is A New Meaning Of Family. It’s Not A Question Of A Man And A Woman And Children, Which We

Bathroom Styles, 1995

Swamp witch in training. 

musicals as untranslatable words

Anastasia:

hiraeth (Welsh): longing for something lost; a deep grief for a time, place, or feeling that one cannot return to.

The Band’s Visit:

mamihlapinatapei (Yagan): a wordless look two people share, both parties hoping for something to start, but neither willing to initiate it.

Dear Evan Hansen:

litost (Czech): a despairing regret at something that should not have happened or that one should not have done; defined by Milan Kundera as “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.”

Falsettos:

mokita (Kivila): a painful truth that is not at all a secret, but that everyone agrees not to mention out of compassion.

Hamilton:

jijivisha (Hindi): an indomitable spirit; the intense will to live.

The Last Five Years:

razbliuto (Russian): a sentimental feeling towards the person one once loved, but no longer do. A neologism from the 1960s.

Les Misérables:

hüzün (Turkish): an often communal, collective experience of spiritual anguish rooted in worldly suffering; defined by Orhan Pamuk as “a state of mind that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating.” 

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

yūgen (Japanese): an deep experience of the natural world defined by Benito Ortolani as "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering.” 

Newsies:

Fernweh (German): literally “farsickness”; feeling homesick for a place you may have never been.

Next to Normal:

won (Korean): bitter reluctance to let go of an illusion or thing past.

Tuck Everlasting:

aware (Japanese): an empathy towards the bittersweetness of transcendent and transient beauty.

Waitress:

wabi-sabi (Japanese): the lonely beauty of imperfection. According to Richard Powell, wabi-sabi acknowledges the simple realities that “nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

ATONEMENT (2007) dir. Joe Wright

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

Microscopic tardigrade going for a stroll through some algae 

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where is my mind

joan steiner in art to wear - julie schafler dale (1986)