• a note written on a hotel room notepad from hokkaido, taped to a page halfway through a library book
• a child’s hand painted plates and mugs commemorating a primary school graduation found in thrift stores
• oração - a banda mais bonita da cicade and the number of ways it was remembered and reinterpreted, where the chorus it escalates towards is the voice of every listener
• leaving behind sketches of the view from hotel rooms
• public piano players
• when demolished landmarks are immortalised as pokéstops

• 01. burning the old year by naomi shihab nye +
• 01. litany for the animals that run from me by hieu minh nguyen +
• 02. for those who stand against tyrants by joseph fasano
• 02. how to live by todd dillard +
• 02. thirteen ways of looking at a glacier by craig santos perez +
• 03. for a student who used ai to write a paper by joseph fasano +
• 04. fig tree by charif shanahan +
• 04. permiso by carson jordan +

iain cameron’s geography world cup facts, public policy, solastalgia, the capacity to belong, eating the other

— music diary ♫

01. molecular gastronomy - silica gel 02. da sam ja netko - indexi 04. rosa - kathia & lor 06. meadowlands - exploring birdsong

craft markets, fashion history, jazz pop, thrifted crockery, cucumber and citrus water, lego flowers, the youtube recycle bin, contemplating a successful day, soviet innerness, sai ka hor (狮咬虎), lambs and birds of prey, urban sketching, language as memory, unparalleled misalignments, film criticism, the beach at night, world cup politics

— music diary ♫

01. baby flower - triples 02. na boca do sol - arthur verocai 03. and may your dreams - hiroshi ebina 04. waltz for feebee - talk 05. the moon - mama!milk 07. taiji no yume - yoshiko sai 10. unforgettable memories - jyocho 11. surface - acloudyskye 12. bloom - radiohead 13. bunga di telinga - noh salleh 17. surrender - björk & ólöf arnalds 18. vīriņš - tepat 19. no tiempo - lucrecia dalt 23. dom andra - kent 24. oração - a banda mais bonita da cicade 25. beshnaw az naï - mahwash 27. regret - john frusciante 29. parallelisme - miharu koshi

• 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.
• never apologise for being obsessed. read all day. work all day. run for hours. forget time exists. be everywhere but be a ghost. turn off the world and create your own. let craft become compulsion. positive obsession is a gift, disguised as a curse.

— and now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. 𖦹°‧

• heath, they/she/he genderqueer lesbian, some form of aroace
• singaporean, eng/中 (2007)
• a collector of small and meaningful objects (with no inherent use other than to make the heart glow a little softer)
• sociology student, full-time archivist of memory, with a chronic dependence on tea and critical theory to interpret reality
• internet mori person tending to a digital garden

♡︎ hobbies: photography, researching, writing, media criticism, music discovery, birding, journaling, reading, exploring museums, engagement with niche passions, all sorts of side quests

“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, having niche passions, patchworks, clouds, social constructivism ♡

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