This Blog Brought to You by the Letter 'E'

I am on vacation this week, one of those increasingly popular 'staycations.' I find that these kind of weeks rapidly turn into a string of mental health days, or ways to catch up on untended chores or abandoned to-do lists. I thought I would make a more dedicated attempt to add things to this blog (while dodging my logic homework at the same time.) Therefore, I will try, in earnest, to post something every day for the next 5 days. For such a project, I felt I needed a theme, so...

There are so many great adjectives that start with the letter 'E', I thought I would go Sesame Street style and use 'E' until I run out of 'E' words that I like or I make it through 5 days. In no particular order, we will start with...

ephemeral
Adj. Lasting for a markedly brief time.

I think there is a missing sense here, perhaps one that I mistakingly associate with this word. For me, it has never been so much about the limited time of the thing, but about the inevitable loss of it, the inability to pin it down, whether physically or with words. I think of the rapidly changing colors of a summer sunset, the kind that fills you with the pain of its beauty, but one that you can never fully explain how it made you feel or describe what it looked like to someone who was not there.

Am I wrong? Do I care? I am honestly unsure.