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28.09.2025 passing sunshowers. the storm presses closer. may the dragonflies find shelter soon. 27.09.2025 i like bruised fruit.
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_____ takes time

  • writing a mail
  • reading a book
  • waiting
  • a garden path
  • tying shoelaces
  • a wound
  • walking the dog
  • yawning
  • pouring a cup of tea
  • a snail
  • chopping vegetables
  • resting

i'll lend you my _______

  • worn rug
  • books and manga
  • polka-dotted cashmere socks
  • old 3ds, plus the animal crossing wild world cartridge
  • downloads folder
  • hand + ear
  • trees and the comfort of their shade
  • my shaggy dog, to keep you company on your walk
  • best spot in the park on days i can't come
  • favorite hour of the day (which is noontide)

the year in repeats

  • iiyo iiyo iiyo by sam wilkes
  • i’ll be waving as you drive away by hayden pedigo
  • die to wake up from a aream by mf tomlinson
  • colonial patterns by huerco s.
  • whodunnit by adeline hotel
  • hosono house covers by haruomi hosono
  • 444 by hemlock
  • entrance music by okonski
  • a blade because a blade is whole by alabaster deplume
  • honey from a winter stone by ambrose akinmusire
  • expanding to one by phi-psonics
  • the night by saint etienne

these books are so good i’ll read them again

  • the books of earthsea - ursula k. le guin
  • plainwater - anne carson
  • the book of disquiet - fernando pessoa
  • braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer
  • botchan - natsume soseki
  • rose - li-young lee
  • all my cats - bohumil hrabal
  • the vegetarian - han kang
  • upstream: selected essays - mary oliver
  • so late in the day - claire keegan
  • hour of the star - clarice lispector

best watches of 2025

  • another year by mike leigh
  • happy end by michael haneke
  • blue gate crossing by yee chih-yen
  • red rooms by pascal plante
  • plainclothes by carmen emmi
  • the metamorphosis of birds by catarina vasconcelos
  • millennium mambo by hou hsiao-hsien
  • friendship by andrew deyoung
  • cow by andrea arnold
  • together by michael shanks
  • maudie by aisling walsh
  • enough said by nicole holofcener

apps that live on my phone

  • garden ~ internetfriends.llc
  • yawn away ~ yawnaway.com
  • neko atsume ~ nekoatsume.com
  • fish: a tap essay ~ robinsloan.com/fish
  • remember mori ~ remembermori.app
  • gather ~ gather.directory
  • kiwix ~ kiwix.org
  • yuma camera ~ yuma.chat
  • merlin bird id ~ allaboutbirds.org
  • worrydolls ~ worrydolls.app
  • notesnook ~ notesnook.com
  • ping practice ~ pingpractice.org

i probably have too many _____

  • notebooks
  • teas
  • pens
  • bookmarks
  • plushies
  • chawans
  • expectations
  • pets
  • lip balms
  • mails
  • open tabs
  • hopes

things i broke this year

  • a light cerulean pomegranate brooch with gold-flecked seeds
  • a macbook screen
  • a large-handled ceramic mug, decorated with layered blue color fields that shift in tone
  • a pair of black cole haan shoes
  • a mosaic-style giraffe brooch made from recycled materials

things i gave away this year

  • books i love — including braiding sweetgrass, journal of solitude, on becoming a person, the hour of the star, human acts
  • my coral orange t-shirt with a tiny embroidered message at the bottom right reading “be kind”
  • my horn brooch of a bird perched on a branch
  • my chunky brown muji pen
  • my pink shorts patterned with cute little cats

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