i am interested in learning more about

• childhood
• trees
• storytelling
• tenderness
• dreams
• urban loneliness
• tangibility
• grief
• aphoristic instagram meme culture
• love languages
• building things with your hands
• baba yaga
• what makes an identity
• oral histories
• beekeeping
• world building ; myth-making
• memory
• the concept of the ether
• alternative learning methods

i just created this channel, and am trialing a new indexing system. it's still under construction and subject to change but it looks a little something along the lines of
✴︎ pinned, or close to my heart
➿ research/projects/investigations
+ craft research/visual reference
꩜ mapping feelings; the organic; the more abstract
🧺 collecting/repositories
( ) more for me or currently unsorted
🌳 …trees! :’)

so far the idea is that this will be a rotating channel tracking what i am actively thinking on. themes, questions, feelings, blocks/channels from the community, anything. the idea comes from this practice i used to do where i would write "things on my mind" in the centre of a journal page and just brain dump (like, really pour it out) entirely unrelated things in clusters around it so that they could coexist. there is a private channel acting as a backlog for anything that has appeared here.

also to give my are.na a voice? i realised there is no commanding or guiding voice that stands out above the noise of all my separate channels to provide some kind of synthesis.