Tag: metaphor

Frustrate is a frustrating word. It’s often a throwaway term people use to deflect inquiries into their emotions, a vague label that thwarts follow up questions. In the same manner, nobody can get… more emotion Stymied

Emotion is not a thing like a pebble is a thing. It can’t be measured with a ruler or weighed on a scale. It can’t be seen by people other than those having… more emotion Ebullience

Wintercearig is a special kind of cold despair that makes a person feel something comparable to a bitter winter within themselves, even if the actual weather around them is sunny and warm.

Trust is dynamic, like a tree. It isn’t an absolute law that must never be violated in the slightest. It’s a general shape of understanding that holds on the whole in spite of minor fractures.

Today, I am driving to the end of the northernmost paved road in all of Canada. It reaches all the way up to the side of St. James Bay, the dramatic dimple dipping… more emotion Distant