taste

• a meal from the new restaurant near me that i haven't tried yet
• ✔ something on my favorite restaurant's menu that i haven't tried before
• milk tea from my favorite downtown restaurant, as often as possible
• homemade poptarts
• good meals with my friends
• fancy little treats for no reason

smell

• rosemary spray, everywhere, all the time
• baking bread
• petrichor
• ✔ a perfume with barely sensible reviews that i fall in love with
• fresh air through my bedroom window as often as the weather permits
• djarums
• cocoa butter
• dill freshly cut from the garden

touch

• desert sands
• cold saltwater
• warm beach rocks
• modeling clay
• soft fabrics
• gloves -> film -> developer
• ✔ something that fits in my hand in a very satisfying way

hear

• drums that fix my brain chemistry
• a guitar riff that makes me insane
• the four right chords
• new sentences in other languages that i can add to this list
• future favorite songs and albums that i don't even know exist yet
• applause for my friends at their talks and events
• the sound of the nocturnal bird that i've been failing to identify for three winters running in my friends' yard in texas
• my friend's amazing playlists as we have art days together for the first time in years
• a mixtape i make by taping songs off the radio as though it is the early years of my life
• my d&d players cheering each other on as they figure out a puzzle i set for them
• local opera

see

• tumbleweeds
• dozens of beautiful, cool, striking, and ugly things through my camera's viewfinder
• something in a gallery that evokes a strong emotion
• something in a museum exhibit that makes me laugh out loud in delight
• something in an archive that breathes life into my thesis
• sunrise on both solstices
• lots and lots of zines
• a book in another language (and comprehend it)
• a book about the history of chemistry
• many books in general
• a tarot spread from the deck i've been planning to make
• a line of poetry so good i have no choice but to highlight/underline it