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.”

Fitzcarraldo

Ameneurosis

Elsewise

Foreclearing

Vulture Shock

Mahpiohanzia

Merrenness

The Kick Drop

Kairosclerosis

Ghough

Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

Ringlorn

La Cuna

Rückkehrunruhe

Scabulous

Aubadoir

Chrysalism

Idlewild

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Proluctance

Ledsome

Slipfast

Anchorage

Hubilance

Anaphasia

Waldosia