it's a dinglehopper

today i am listening to: fiona apple - fast as you can

old school geniousity. yes please.

and

look at that

old school panache.

shake me up with a blast from the past

old. school. plane. crash.

"living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.

the moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

-agnes de mille

"a mind that is stretched by a new experience

can never go back to its old dimensions."

- oliver wendell holmes jr.

fluorescent floral

and now bring you -- words that don't exist in the english language

(but some things are just better left unsaid)

L'esprit de escalier: (french) the feeling you get

after leaving a conversation,

when you think of all the things you should have said

meraki: (greek) doing something with soul, creativity, or love.

forelsket: (norwegian) the euphoria you experience

when you are first falling in love

gigil: (filipino) the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute

go here. <-- for the most adorable photo-shoot with the most adorable girls, by their most-adorable dad

(i dare you not to swoon...)

pena ajena: (spanish) the embarrassment you feel

watching someone else's humiliation

aka. this. whole. movie.

schadenfreude: (german) the pleasure derived from someone else's pain

age-otori: (japanese)to look worse after a haircut

with all-do respect,
i love me some justin timby

bakku-shan: (japanese) a beautiful girl.. as long as

she is being viewed from behind

desenrascanco: (portuguese) "to disentagle" yourself

out of a bad situation.. (you know. like to macgyver something)

mamihlapinatapai: (yaghan) a look between two people

that suggests an unspoken, shared desire

Cafune: (portuguese) the act of tenderly running

one's fingers through someone's hair

sgiomlaireachd (scottish gaelic)

when people interrupt you at mealtime

shlimazl: (yiddish) somebody who has nothing but bad luck

jayus: (indonesian) a joke so poorly told

and so unfunny

that one cannot help but laugh

stam: (hebrew) an agreement out of amusement and frustration that something

doesn't have a satisfactory answer among those talking

tingo: (pascuense language of easter island)

to borrow objects one by one

from a neighbor's house

until there is nothing left

backpfeifengesicht: (german) a face badly in need of a fist

eh? just a little punch?

tartle: (sottish) the act of hesitating while

introducing someone because you've forgotten their name

send me soaring, with that parachute of love

xoxo. -jess