Channel: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Description: THE BOOK IS HERE, with hundreds of new definitions: bit.ly/3z1RYvH Available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook, read by the author. ↓ ETYMOLOGY, TRANSCRIPT & CREDITS ↓ Email the author: obscuresorrows@gmail.com Facebook facebook.com/pages/The-Di... Twitter @ObscureSorrows twitter.com/obscuresorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language-to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don't yet have a word for. WHAT IS THAT MUSIC? "Perception" by Richard Allen Harvey. Sharp-eared viewers will notice I used an excerpt of this song in the series trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=hEDWH... ETYMOLOGY From Serbo-Croatian lútalica, "wanderer." TRANSCRIPT Lutalica. You tell the world who you are in a million different ways. Some are subtle, some are not. But it doesn't seem to matter: this world has already got you pegged. When you were born they put you in a little box, and slapped a label on it. So they could keep things organized, and not have to think about what’s inside. Over time you learn to make yourself comfortable packaging your identity in different combinations until you feel like you belong, and can wear your labels proudly. But there’s a part of you that never really found a home rattling around in categories that couldn’t do you justice. You look around at other people, trying to judge how loosely they fit in their own lives sensing a knot of confusion hidden beneath a name tag. And you realize we’re still only strangers, who assume we already know what the other is going to say, as if the only thing left to talk about is who belongs in what category and which labels are offensive. You have to wonder if these boxes are falling apart. If we should be writing our identities by hand, speaking only for ourselves, in our own words, taking our chances out in the open and meet each other as we are, asking: “What is it like being you?” —and be brave enough to admit that we don’t already know the answer. Maybe it’ll mean that we’ve finally arrived, just “unpacking the boxes” making ourselves at home. And maybe we’ll look back and wonder how we managed to live in the same house for so long, and never stop to introduce ourselves. VIDEO CREDITS ALL UNDER VIMEO.COM CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION LICENSE Rally for homeless LGBT youth by Washington Square News Portrait Of A NYC Artist_ Serene Bacigalupi by Marco Bjorn Ott The Ballerina by Mollie Mills 백현진 정재일 - 봄의 풍경 Baekhyeonjin jeongjaeil - landscape of spring by RECANDPLAY.NET The Road Out of Homelessness Nazma of Kolkata by Girl Rising TORONTO ZOMBIE WALK 2014 MONTAGE - GH4-HD by Kevin Shak vimeo.com/110105838 An Experimental Film by CHARCOLE vimeo.com/64578562 Caminar y otras cosas by Selman and Platt Portfolio Time for the Soul by Jasper Enujuba vimeo.com/112910338 STICK short film by IVN vimeo.com/106576912 The Invisible Homeless by Mahala Gaylord UNE FILLE COMME LES AUTRES by Matthew Frost vimeo.com/34247028 FIFTY PENCE by Eric Kolelas vimeo.com/63550087 2011 TTB Film My Beautiful Island Dir. cut by JL Design vimeo.com/27050148 Erbery by Maxime Quoilin We are not alone by Marc González vimeo.com/99435053 The Wild Phonograph Montita - Burma Border, Thailand by Chloe Lyttle Don't Let The Day Get Away- Inspirit HSM_90_MASTER_V01 by Hello Sunday Morning vimeo.com/125363045 Meishan & Zachary Macro-film by Kazaf Chan Cinematography vimeo.com/87156932 JE SUIS UN FILM by Lucas Maudoux JEPPE KOLSTRUP & ALEKSANDER HØRUP BROODS BRIDGES by THE WŒRKS vimeo.com/89896189 By my Selfie by MediaLab Eafit CYCLONE FASHION FILM by Adam McDaid vimeo.com/133981402 70 Anos by Carlos Vieira vimeo.com/120715339 Francis + Cassius Cape Cod Wedding Film in Provincetown, MA by Brighter Lights Media FAMARADISE by MERA vimeo.com/106085624 Where Do We Go From Here_ Occupy Wall St. by Ed David Indahnya Bali by MaartenFilms vimeo.com/124390458 Anita+Claudia Highlights by 2become1 vimeo.com/132419472 SAME SAME by Sylvain Coppens vimeo.com/120796371 Paris by Conrad Golovac vimeo.com/125860366 REMEMBER GABON [GH4 - Metabones Speedbooster] by David Mboussou vimeo.com/119287310 Finding Welkin by Jay Salbert vimeo.com/89885058 Mardi Gras 2011 by Casey Latiolais Mission to Cambodia by Paul Jeong