flâneur

some feelings I could never find the single word for

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too many emotions and not enough words.

by Grandma Moses — the surreal warmth you feel in the midst of a cold winter, snuggled in your blanket, your favorite book next to you. The sun has risen, and the coldest day imaginable has started on a very warm note. — you are feeling too much — your heart is beating too fast for you to catch hold of, and you want to scream all your emotion out or write it out in the perfect words, but nothing comes to your aid. you feel too much, and too much, and it goes on endlessly. — when you finally do something well — it’s not much but it’s still more than what you could do before — and a foreign…

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