Tag: loss

The petals flutter to the earth to rejoin the soil in even the slightest breeze. There is beauty in their falling for just a few moments. Then, it is over.

What do you want? In superhero movies and page-turners written for the beach, the answer to this question is clear. The hero has a goal, but encounters obstacles and must overcome them. In… more emotion Ambivalence

Mourning is terrible feeling of coming to terms with the fact that what once was can never be again.

A popular view of the cycle of the year, moving from season to season, is that each season has its own particular mood and meaning: Spring representing growth, summer representing the joy of… more emotion Wintering

The emotional suffering of wintertime is well known, so strong that it often endures into springtime. An autumnal mood, however, is more complex. We feel hints of lingering warmth in the Fall, along… more emotion Autumnal

To feel envy is to feel a hunger for something that someone has, whether it’s a concrete object, or less tangibly, an identity or way of life. Jealousy is a desperate view from… more emotion Jealousy

There are some emotions, like heartbreak, that do more than describe the mood of the moment. They tell the story of an emotional trajectory in which the change in status is at the… more emotion Crestfallen

What is architecture but the provider of safe, warm boxes in which to live and work? Modernist architects provided us with clean, simple buildings that, although they are functionally adequate, are emotionally dead…. more emotion Ruinenlust