Grumpy Trumpy Felon

This is the best Randy Rainbow yet.

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I’ve got 5 people lined up for the 12^th and the 19^th. And on the 28^th, I do it at the library, so I have an audience once a week for the next three weeks. 

I did my taxes yesterday and mailed them. That’s a major thing done. And today I get my car insurance. With no clinic work hanging over my head, I’m getting things done that I’ve been wanting to do forever! And, of course, I run my lines. The whole thing rolls out of me pretty easily. I’m practicing going slower.

I read, run lines, and do errands or yard work, depending on the weather. I’ve finally stopped thinking about the clinic and leaving. I run lines in my head instead. It feels good to come and go on a spotlessly clean driveway and front yard. It’s such a lovely time of year—my yard is green but there are no weeds yet. They’re coming. 

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The spectrum of human experience is far too complicated to be limited to happy, sad, and in-between. In fact, there are more words for the “in-between” than most people know. Here are 10 nouns in the English language for our many complicated human emotions. 

Iove #9. As a kid, I’d imagine being on a rocket shooting off from earth, through the universe and to its edge, and when I reached the edge, I’d shake with incomprehension wondering what the universe was in.

1.     Chrysalism: (Pronounced kris-a-lizim.) The feeling of tranquility when you’re indoors when it’s raining heavily outside. 

2.     Lilo: (Pronounced ly-lo.) The friendship between two people who feel as if no time has passed when they see each other after a long period of separation. 

3.     Sonder: (Pronounced son-der.) The realization that every stranger and passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. That each person is occupied by their own personal ambitions, worries, and problems.

4.     Monachopsis: (Pronounced mo-na-kop-sis.) The inability to adapt to your surroundings and the feeling of being out of place. 

5.     Eramnesia: (Pronounced eram-nee-ja.) The realization that you were born in the wrong time period, wishing you lived in another time. 

6.     Anemoia: (Pronounced an-em-oh-ya.) The feeling of nostalgia for a time or place that you have never experienced.

7.     Pâro: (Pronounced pah-ro.) The feeling that no matter what you do, you’re doing it wrong. 

8.     Xeno: (Pronounced zee-noh.) The powerful moments shared between random strangers, such as a smile or a laugh, which reduce feelings of loneliness. 

9.     Acatalepsy: (Pronounced aka-ta-lep-sy.) The apparent impossibility of humans ever comprehending the universe. 

10.  Liberosis: (Pronounced lib-ero-sis.) The desire to care less about things, to feel less.