Definitions
subtopia [sʌbˈtəʊpɪə]
n
(Social Science / Human Geography) Brit suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
[blend of suburb + Utopia]
subtopian adj
synchronicity [ˌsɪnkrəˈnɪsɪtɪ]
n
(Psychology) an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated
[coined by Carl Jung from synchronic + -ity]
sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk
mono-no-aware
Japanese word. Originally meant emotion initiated by engagement of the senses. A persons internal response to the external world. Now the wider meaning is a poignant awareness about the transient nature of things.
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This blog is about geography only in the sense that everything happens somewhere.
As for subtopian - all the other cool blog names were taken!
And synchroncity - if you're reading this maybe its coincidence...
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