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Ongoing, First published Sep 25, 2025
Hiraeth (Welsh) -
homesickness
a deep, bittersweet feeling of longing and nostalgia that goes beyond simply missing a place or person. 

A journal of some sort, because I don't have friends to talk to.

It encompasses a sense of melancholy and wistfulness for a past that can't be recaptured.
''Hiraeth gives a name to that sense of incompleteness you feel when you're acutely aware of something missing in your life. Something you've left behind in the past - a home, a sense of feeling at home in yourself, an out-grown dream - or maybe an ideal you've invented that can never be realised, or a hope that perpetually eludes you as the future unfolds. At its core, hiraeth boils down to an awareness of the presence of absence, kindling a feeling in which pain and joy are braided too tightly to untangle.''
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Hireath: (n) A homesickness for a home you can't return to, or that never was. For the home I haven't yet returned to. ***************************** A book of poems and the occasional response to writing prompts. Or both. My escape when I can't find it in real life.