• late winter dawns and early winter sunsets; the sky becoming warm shades of pink and orange
  • laughing so hard you start crying
  • when people you love tell you about things they love
  • listening to the sound of waves with your eyes closed
  • flowers, especially meadow flowers when they grow wildly and beautifully and colorfully; putting flowers in your hair, braiding them into hair; making wreaths that are kind of messy and kind of falling apart but you keep trying anyway just for the fun of it; floral patterns
  • warm lighting
  • getting a bit lost and a bit desperate in a place you're visiting for the first time, only to truly learn your way around it
  • writing letters; then sending them on a long journey and them not getting lost on the way
  • white and yellow and pink and green forests of spring, lively green forests of summer, red and orange and golden forests of autumn, white forests of winter
  • nishi's warmth and care, and the way she is
  • going to cafes with friends, pondering over which dessert to order, pondering over whether i want a coffee or a tea more
  • lois, jam, and every conversation we've had
  • metastreaming, without the part when metastream stops working
  • the mole movement
  • books and films that make you cry, words that you can feel enter your heart and wish to stay there for a long time and you let them
  • telling someone about a dream, listening to others' dreams
  • the smell of the air on summer evenings
  • the way even the heaviest snowfalls are always silent; how there's no sound of the world becoming soft and serene
  • listening to stories, telling stories
  • learning something new about a dear person
  • the sound of heavy rains when it's time to sleep
  • taking a long time to look at paintings that make you feel something
  • when someone says they've been reminded of you by something
  • picking berries; when they feel warm from the sunlight they'd been bathing in
  • when you're on a plane and there are clouds right beneath it and they're almost within hand's reach and you're wondering what it'd be like to touch them
  • putting on music and singing along to it with everything you've got while cleaning or cooking
  • when your heart suddenly feels so warm and full that it has you wanting to cry a bit
  • looking up lyrics of songs in foreign languages and finding out about their meanings
  • opening bedroom window and letting fresh air in right before going to sleep
  • the feeling of freezing winter air on your face; the comfort that can be found in warmth on especially cold days
  • when the streetlights are bright but you still manage to see a few stars in the night sky
  • going for a bike ride on an early summer morning, when the air still is a bit chilly
  • the sight of mountains, especially in winter
  • talking about pets
  • forests and flowers and clouds and trees in paintings
  • my friends' art
  • the feelings that linger after watching studio ghibli movies
  • cloudgazing: be it while lying down on the grass somewhere, be it from between tree branches that shield you from the sun, be it from my dorm bed placed right by the window, be it from the extremely uncomfortable chair at my desk at home (i have a new and more comfortable chair now, but the meaning remains)
  • tree's storytelling. her ability to put feelings and images and events into words with so much love and care that you can see it and feel it and hear it and even nearly touch it. her magical worlds.
  • dina's writing. the little narratives that feel like you've lived an entire lifetime and travelled to every place and lived through every memory.
  • when buffy looks at me like he's had enough and how that always makes me laugh
  • following a friend's recommendation to read/watch/listen to something and then the sharing of thoughts and feelings that comes afterwards
mar 24 2020 ∞
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