Trumspringa

Trumspringa

n.
the longing to wander off your career track in pursuit of a simple life—tending a small farm in a forest clearing, keeping a lighthouse on a secluded atoll, or becoming a shepherd in the mountains—which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.

German Stadtzentrum, “city center” + Pennsylvania German Rumspringa, “hopping around.” Rumspringa is a putative tradition in which Amish teens dip their toes in modernity for a while before choosing whether to commit to the traditional way of life. Pronounced “truhm-spring-guh.”

Idlewild

Mahpiohanzia

Elsewise

Volander

Foreclearing

Exulansis

Zielschmerz

Jouska

Gobo

Harmonoia

Merrenness

Trumspringa

The Til

Scabulous

Slipfast

Plata Rasa

Ghough

The Kick Drop

Waldosia

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Chrysalism

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

The Mcfly Effect

Rivener

Skidding

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain