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12.10.2025 #f4e8d3 my dog’s coat in the sunlight
09.10.2025 #535a2e the moss on the temple roof
05.10.2025 #925516 the crust of the sourdough loaf
04.10.2025 #f9cdaa the tone of my skin
02.10.2025 #556b47 the origami bird sam made
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peckin by shel silverstein
the saddest thing i ever did see
was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree.
he looks at me, and "friend," says he,
"things ain't as sweet as they used to be."
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ways to quietly share on special.fish
- edit lists
- make a log list
- set community based on last night’s dream
- adopt a new username
- change color block avatar to match current mood
- update current location while writing here
- swap featured fish on profile
- write directly into the source
_____ takes time
- writing a mail
- reading a book
- waiting
- a garden path
- tying shoelaces
- a wound
- walking the dog
- yawning
- pouring a cup of tea
- a snail
- chopping vegetables
- resting
i'll lend you my _______
- worn rug
- books and manga
- polka-dotted cashmere socks
- old 3ds, plus the animal crossing wild world cartridge
- downloads folder
- hand + ear
- trees and the comfort of their shade
- my shaggy dog, to keep you company on your walk
- best spot in the park on days i can't come
- favorite hour of the day (which is noontide)
the year in repeats
- iiyo iiyo iiyo by sam wilkes
- i’ll be waving as you drive away by hayden pedigo
- die to wake up from a aream by mf tomlinson
- colonial patterns by huerco s.
- whodunnit by adeline hotel
- hosono house covers by haruomi hosono
- 444 by hemlock
- entrance music by okonski
- a blade because a blade is whole by alabaster deplume
- honey from a winter stone by ambrose akinmusire
- expanding to one by phi-psonics
- the night by saint etienne
these books are so good i’ll read them again
- the books of earthsea - ursula k. le guin
- plainwater - anne carson
- the book of disquiet - fernando pessoa
- braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer
- botchan - natsume soseki
- rose - li-young lee
- all my cats - bohumil hrabal
- the vegetarian - han kang
- upstream: selected essays - mary oliver
- so late in the day - claire keegan
- hour of the star - clarice lispector
best watches of 2025
- another year by mike leigh
- happy end by michael haneke
- blue gate crossing by yee chih-yen
- red rooms by pascal plante
- plainclothes by carmen emmi
- the metamorphosis of birds by catarina vasconcelos
- millennium mambo by hou hsiao-hsien
- friendship by andrew deyoung
- cow by andrea arnold
- together by michael shanks
- maudie by aisling walsh
- enough said by nicole holofcener
apps that live on my phone
- sun day tracker ~ github.com/jackjackbits/sunday
- joplin ~ joplinapp.org/
- garden ~ internetfriends.llc
- yawn away ~ yawnaway.com
- neko atsume ~ nekoatsume.com
- fish: a tap essay ~ robinsloan.com/fish
- remember mori ~ remembermori.app
- gather ~ gather.directory
- kiwix ~ kiwix.org
- yuma camera ~ yuma.chat
- worrydolls ~ worrydolls.app
- ping practice ~ pingpractice.org
i probably have too many _____
- notebooks
- teas
- pens
- bookmarks
- plushies
- chawans
- expectations
- pets
- lip balms
- mails
- open tabs
- hopes
things i broke this year
- a light cerulean pomegranate brooch with gold-flecked seeds
- a macbook screen
- a large-handled ceramic mug, decorated with layered blue color fields that shift in tone
- a pair of black cole haan shoes
- a mosaic-style giraffe brooch made from recycled materials
- a vintage glass in transparent blue, ideal for a cold beer
things i gave away this year
- books i love — including braiding sweetgrass, journal of solitude, on becoming a person, the hour of the star, human acts
- my coral orange t-shirt with a tiny embroidered message at the bottom right reading “be kind”
- my horn brooch of a bird perched on a branch
- my chunky brown muji pen
- my pink shorts patterned with cute little cats