“make your life the first life that you save.”

── likes. photography, tea, lepidoptera, sumikkogurashi, commonplace books, existentialism, wildflowers, literature, lace accents, critical media analyses, kaomojis, studio ghibli films, the golden hour

── dislikes. false dichotomies, toxic optimism, overly sweet tea, monotony, pseudoscience, listening to my own voice, anti-intellectualism, conservative ideology

“whoever you are, no matter how lonely, / the world offers itself to your imagination, / calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting / over and over announcing your place / in the family of things.” — wild geese, mary oliver ｡𖦹°‧

• heath, they/she sapphic. singaporean, 07
• a vessel for more thoughts and words than are necessary
• biology & philosophy student perpetually desiring academic validation
• photographer, occasional essayist & poet
• watching wild skies, wishing with closed eyes

• apply the principle of charity
• it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. - invitation, mary oliver
• you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you feel like you’ve lost many years to grief or darkness or wounds that won’t close
• good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you (๑'ᵕ'๑)⸝*
• do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. do justly, now. love with mercy, now. walk humbly now. you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

— what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. the forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives. 𖧧

love letters by victoria chang, matcha powder, desperate prayer circles, sweden’s solar system model, pulling a lifetime first all-nighter on the adrenaline high of writing a research paper

— music diary ♫ favourite discoveries italicised

01. echoes of fading girl - 揺れるは幽霊 02. where life comes from and returns - akira kosemura 03. cinema paradiso - kurayamisaka 04. namgungFEFERE - silica gel (feat. japanese breakfast) 05. budland - silica gel 06. jigsaw falling into place - radiohead 07. 訣別書 - 鄧垚 08. the towering skyscraper at the end of the road - of monsters and men 09. sleepsong - secret garden 10. graze - she's green 11. 25 degrees - umyull 12. journey from a jar to the sky (planetarium) - mudeth