I’m not even on the plane yet, and I already miss the way my dogs lean into me for comfort.

hubilance (HYOO buh luhns) - n. the quiet poignance of your own responsibility for someone, with a mix of pride and fear and love and humility—feeling a baby fall asleep on your chest, or driving at night surrounded by loved ones fast asleep, who trust you implicitly with their lives—a responsibility that wasn’t talked about or assigned to you, it was assumed to be yours without question.

- From “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig

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Damn, we did not get the forecasted snow. Still slightly too warm.

I need a word that represents the calm that settles over me when a blanket of snow covers the world outside in a layer of quietude and unblemished-ness, like being in an art gallery with white walls and only one or two magnificent paintings standing tall on them.

And then I need a word for the longing for that particular kind of calm.

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