Why Feelings Refuse to Transfer Cleanly

Feelings arrive private, inconsistent, and impossible to pour into someone else—so what are they actually for when the job is serving others? This episode traces feeling as ignition and orientation rather than raw transmission, and asks how far shared criteria can go without the weather that first taught them. A meditation on compass needles, Wordsworth’s tranquillity, and building paths that still work when the storm is different. Word of the day: sough — a soft murmuring sigh, as of wind thro