So I have this book. And it's romantic as hell. Not in the You've Got Mail sense (which is a great movie ngl), but in the watching a creaky old ship fight swells in a storm sense.

I love words and their meanings. And while the words and their meanings in this book are completely made up, all words and their meanings were at some point.

A few examples (with voice clips included):

Aftersome -astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today—as if you’d spent years bouncing down a Plinko pegboard, passing through a million harmless decision points, any one of which might’ve changed everything—which makes your long and winding path feel fated from the start, yet so unlikely as to be virtually impossible.

Nyctous -feeling quietly overjoyed to be the only one awake in the middle of the night. Sitting alone with a laptop and a cup of tea. Strolling down the center line of an abandoned street. Taking in the world like an empty theater between productions. Stripped down to a simple black box hoping to be whatever you wanted to be.

Hubilance -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.

So beginning with page 5, there are 249 pages of definitions in this book. If you're so inclined, comment a number below and I'll pick a word on that page to read with a voice note reply.

Or if you're so inclined to share some words of your own with the type of person that would make this post, you know where to find me.

Cheers.