15 Words We Don’t Have In English That Describe Feelings We Have Every Day (And One We Do)
“Every now and then we experience emotions that defy easy description.”
“Every now and then we experience emotions that defy easy description.”
I am going to undress this sloppy sandwich condiment by condiment.
There is a reason these terrorists are no longer obstructing commerce in your local financial district. Occupy Wall Street exposed a flaw in the American system, a system allegedly designed for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses “yearning to breathe free.”
“A single death is a tragedy,” Josef Stalin is supposed to have said. “A million is a statistic.”
Between January 26 and January 28, “Winter Storm Juno,” as it has been dubbed in the media, dumped over 30 inches of snow over 54 locations in six states.
Keep the faith, true believers.
Every tank, round of munition, boot on the ground, drone, vehicle and death fails to justify two wars fought for too long with too much borrowed money.
As Rolling Stone so eloquently put it, “If the Koch brothers didn’t exist, the left would have to invent them.”
My generation only inhabits this world. We have not built it and we are too Balkanized to deconstruct it.
To say that my father died would often send an adult in search of the chink in my armor, the loose thread, the thing that would unravel me in a puddle of mourning. But there is no chink, no thread, no visible scar. My grief is ordinary and well worn.