• 01. burning the old year by naomi shihab nye +
• 01. litany for the animals that run from me by hieu minh nguyen +

• 1/30 books
• 0/30 films

reading. mad world: the politics of mental health by micha fraser-carroll

• unfinished: rhythmanalysis by henri lefebvre

watching. lee chang-dong’s filmography

• 4/6 found, 0/6 watched

listening. amiereuse - anotyne (cudighi records)

• 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.

pre-2000s japanese music

• doopee time - doopees (1995)
• long season - fishman (1996)
• fanfare - advantage lucy (1999)
• la debutante - sonoko (1987)

monthly music backlog

january

• 23/01 boycott heaven by the format
• 27/01 so much has changed by maro
• 30/01 sunlight echoes by whitelands

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wind chimes, winter cherry blossoms, sun glitter, the humour of mistranslated signs, quilted vests, john urry’s tourist gaze, astrophotography, seaside towns, cobblestone paths, staircases,

— music diary ♫

02. coincidental planet - shohei amimori 04. painty paint pots - 800 cherries 05. persona - re:hearts 06. don’t look back in anger - youmou to ohana 15. limn - isobel 16. sailboat - cavetown, chloe moriondo 17. ridnym - leléka 18. sakura swirl - luminousorange 21. say hi to the sun - seko 22. 幻想旅行 - hako yamasaki 23. belly of the whale - searows 24. doppelgänger - harumakigohan 25. loveblood - zzzaam 27. constellation’s song - della zyr 28. tictoc - seoul magic club 29. laps - call me dandelion 30. mes amiereuses du noir - anotyne 31. blankspace - whitelands

• was travelling with poor reception earlier in the month!

— 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 genderqueer sapphic
• 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)
• aspiring sociology student, full-time archivist of memory, with a chronic dependence on tea and critical theory to interpret reality

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

“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

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