All languages have their shortcomings. Sometimes words in our native tongue fail us. For me that seems to happen in English when it comes to emotions. There are feelings we all have but are hard to describe. Today I turn to German for a feeling I once described as melancholia but knew that didn’t quite capture the nuisances of the feeling now I have a word that does and I shall, in great English tradition, borrow it from German. It’s…
Mary Louise Eklund 