hiraeth (n.) - deep longing for something, especially one's home.

Editor's Note:

As clouds laced the sky, heralding the onset of winter, we at Vertigo celebrated the unusually torrential season by cozying up with friends and first drafts at our traditional Peet’s Coffee workshops. We delivered festive cheer to loved ones by way of holiday cards while pondering the meaning of home.

It is with great delight and well wishes for the new year that we present our 2022 Winter Issue, based upon hiraeth: a sense of deep longing, especially for a home which one cannot return to.

We invite our readers to roam with us in our exploration of home in the past, present, and future. Whether it be yearning for our childhood persimmons and daisies scorched, or relishing in the new births of cicadas, we captured the fervor and ballet of hiraeth in prose, poetry, and art.

As the new year waxes, we: pose one final question. To you, our dear readers, what is home to you? With Love, The Vertigo Editors <3