things I like

    To do
  • Have long conversations
  • Write dramatic emails to my friends
  • Read a book in the sunshine while eating green apples or table grapes
  • Try unusual fizzy beverages
  • Fix bikes (as a thinly veiled disguise for having long conversations)
    To use
  • A nice small dutch oven
  • Panniers
  • Toothbrushes
  • Trade paperbacks (a sadly dying breed)
  • Public transport!
  • Kobos
  • The app Spectrolite
  • The public library
    To make
  • Sourdough bread (see above)
  • Zines (see writing tab)
  • Socks
  • Music on my viola
  • Bags
    To see
  • Three channel video artworks
  • The mountains from faraway
  • The mountains from nearby
  • Emails from my friends in my inbox
  • Lichen
  • My holds shelf at the library
  • Interesting lichen
  • Bubbles in my kombucha
  • My beautiful friends
    To listen to
  • The album Force of Nature
  • Paper Dragon
  • The sound of my bike tyres on an empty, quiet road at night
  • Podcasts, probably more than is healthy
  • Little wild urban streams in flood (for more on urban streams read Water Always Wins by Erica Gies!!!)
  • Tūī when the kōwhai are flowering
  • Vegetable bartering in Indian bazaars
  • Teenagers gossiping on the train