Face Made of Glass

ENAMOUR 

[verb] 

1. to fill or inflame with love. 

2. to charm or captivate. 

Etymology: from Middle English enamouren < Old French enamourer < Latin, amor, “love”.

The bathrooms must be the safest place on an airplane in the event it goes down, but what are the odds of that? If your plane touches down, and it will, they will have offered you little more than brief respites from your biology.

SAUDADE

[noun]

a unique Galician-Portuguese word that has no immediate translation in English. Saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return. The term has been described as a “…vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist … a turning towards the past or towards the future.” An abstract feeling of missing, longing, melancholia or nostalgia.

Etymology : from Old Portuguese soidade, soydade, altered by influence of saudar, “to salute”, from Latin solitatem, “solitude”.