A word found you

hiraeth

noun

A Welsh longing for home that you cannot return to, or that never was.

Driving back through the town I grew up in. Everything smaller than I remembered. Missing something I couldn't name.

Welsh

hygge

noun

A Danish quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment.

A Sunday in February. Candles, soup, the rain outside. Nothing to do and nowhere to be. This is what I have been trying to recreate ever since.

Danish

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