• ✔ herbalism
• communicating climate change
• laws of land stewardship
  • permaculture
  • horticulture
  • ✔ foraging
  • local soil, native plants and the ecosystem
  • environmental racism
  • regenerative farming
• ✔ traditional chinese medicine
• ✔ food security
• ✔ nutrition
• ✔ gut microbiome
• psychology
  • positive existential therapy
  • self-actualization
  • the ego
  • ✔ pleasure

2020

• Sex Education
• High Fidelity (♥)
• AJ & the Queen
• Hunters
• Kingdom
• Tales of the City (very much relate to Mona)
• Anne with an E (♥)
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Dear White People
• The Midnight Gospel (♥)
• Travel Man
• Grace and Frankie
• RuPaul's Drag Race S12
• BEASTARS
• Solar Opposites (♥)
• Secret Celebrity Drag Race
• One-Punch Man S02 (♥)
• RuPaul All Stars 5
• Floor is Lava

rainymood, ambiance for the anxious

• To the Dancers in the Rain - Emilie Simon (x)
• Guilty Cubicles - Broken Social Scene (x)
• And She Closed Her Eyes - Stina Nordenstam (x)
• Every Time We Say Goodbye - Ray Charles (x)
• Rise - Azure Ray (x)
• Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (x)
• A Perfunctory Clockwork Yawn - Mimicking Birds (x)
• Displaced - Azure Ray (x)
• Fever Dream - Iron & Wine (x)
• Chimacum Rain - Linda Perhacs (x)
• Stars - The Weepies (x)
• Into Dust - Mazzy Star (x)

an ever growing list

• About Endlessness (2019)
• Alice in the Cities (1974)
• Anatomy of Time (2021)
• Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
• Black Tea (2024)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Dans la maison (2012)
• Daughters of the Dust (1991)
• ✔ Dominion (2018)
• Dust in the Wind (1986)
• ✔ Faces Places (2017)
• Fallen Leaves (2023)
• Food Coop (2016)
• ✔ From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
• Good Morning (1959)
• Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
• It's Only the End of the World (2016)
• Junebug (2005)
• ✔ Law of Desire (1987)
• Marìa Sabina, mujer espìritu (1978)

for the similar! otherwise, as an advocate for the anti-to be read/must read brigade, ignore this list, my opinion is irrelevant, read what you want

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

• Cosmic Ocean Ship by Mia Doi Todd
• Altitude 3000 by Cécil Leuter
• The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
• Night Lights by Gerry Mulligan
• The Erotic Voice of Joe Berluck by Joe Berluck
• Tarot Funk by Nemanja
• Matahari by L'Imperatrice
• After Hours with Sarah Vaughan by Sarah Vaughan
• Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
• Colours by Claudine Longet
• The Brown Bunny Soundtrack
• The Far East Suite by Duke Ellington
• Sakura by Susumu Yokota
• Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
• Sextant by Herbie Hancock
• Soft and Sweet by Mark Duval and His Music
• We Could Be Flying by Karin Krog

• Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang
• Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone by Nora Ephron
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
• Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
• Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus
• Blue Portugal and Other Essays by Theresa Kishkan
• Burning Your Boats: The Collected Stories by Angela Carter
• Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl
• Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen by Michael Marder
• Here, Mr. Splitfoot by Robert Somerlott