spells of survival

spells of survival

A Glossary for the Unspoken

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Isabel Abbott
Sep 17, 2025
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So much gets lost in translation between the lived knowing and the words to say it. is not the absence of vocabulary exactly, but the way language keeps running out just when life is most alive. We have words for weather, but not for the way dusk bruises the sky and makes the body ache like a memory. We have words for grief, but not for the hollow shape…

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