15 July 2026 Steph stooped a scanner the other day and it works perfectly. First order of business, I digitized my used book ephemera collection and archived it on are.na: https://www.are.na/jake-welch/used-book-ephemera-archive 13 July 2026 "...it used to be a truism that great literature finds "the universal in the particular." It feels like contemporary literature is content with just the particular, it's not looking for the universal." Critique of trends in contemporary lit that I read today. I’ve seen this time and time again and it described what I’ve felt perfectly 10 July 2026 How do I make work that: - Encourages people to connect with other people - Helps people notice details in the world around them - Gets people to engage with their physical environment 6 July 2026 Sitting next to my open living room window as the rain pours over the leaves of the tree. I haven't had much time for daydreaming lately 2 July 2026 Home from AZ/UT. For a week I didn't think about time, I just woke up and lived by the position of the sun 16 June 2026 I put my watch on upside down again today without noticing. I've started imagining what something like this could mean. People used to base their entire lives around superstitions like this 2 June 2026 I lost my copy of The Magic Mountain, I think it slipped off the bench without me noticing while I was at the park. Oh well, maybe I wasn't meant to read it yet 28 May 2026 TextEdit is my favorite app 27 May 2026 I live almost entirely in the moment. Sometimes this is good, sometimes this is bad. – A few months ago I wrote something about allowing myself to be like a pebble in a stream, watching the river flow by, but I do think there comes a time where it's time to pick up the pebble and toss it around a little. 26 May 2026 I've been incredibly restless lately, I must have spring fever like my cat. I've desperately been needing to find new ideas, new projects to work on, friends to be around, energy to feed off of 19 May 2026 I have learned to love the smell of the air when it's hot and humid