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Wistful might also describe your feeling of melancholy yearning.
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There's a lovely French word for that feeling ... which I am probably not spelling correctly but our French friends will help, I'm sure. Came across it in a French art song I learned years ago "L'heure Exquise" which translates as the exquisite hour meaning that lovely twilight time.
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tristesse.
I know I said I'd not try non-English without something to copy in front of me but this is too good to let pass by.
Aide moi, mes amis,
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"Friends, who can help me to give expression (better a phrase) to a feeling about your very favorite and cherished thing when you are losing it?"
Loss is always bitter. But losing a "thing" can never be as bitter as losing a beloved person. Fond memories may mitigate the pain, but can never erase it. When hope is gone, what is left except courage?
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But losing a "thing" can never be as bitter as losing a beloved person. Fond memories may mitigate the pain, but can never erase it. When hope is gone, what is left except courage?
Oh, Darling...blind doggedness, I guess, which is courage in a way. We do what we have to do. I have been rather--taken up--with loss, of one kind or another, in recent times, and I am just overwhelmed with what the human spirit can be dealt yet continue to persevere in some fashion.
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<<When hope is gone, what is left except courage?>>
Wonderful Bill,
Enough to make me cry.
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Dear Jessie
The sense of having lost something you cared for dearly leaves you feeling bereft.
More commonly, that same root provides us with 'bereavement', the process of greiving for the lost one and, one hopes, eventually coming to terms with it.
I hope you are not bereft for too long.
the sunshine warrior
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