Ike: Longing is a sacred and generative force. It's really almost a human super power, which you point out is at odds with our culture of normative sunshine. And we live in this culture that doesn't really like to talk about these kinds of emotions of sorrow and longing and poignancy. Their scene is vaguely distasteful; it's cutting us off from some of the best parts of ourselvesa. I think so many people feel this sense of exhaustion from the effort of upbeat upbeat time. So i wanted to explore what or artistic and wisdom adi s have been telling us about these states of mind for the last centuries. In ancient greece, the word