Fandom Snowflake - Day 1

[lebateleur]

Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Grammar - Particularly for second languages. Conjugating verbs, declining nouns, learning how to add prefixes, affixes, suffixes, and the regular ways words transform and fit together is soothing.
Irish traditional music - Particularly fiddle, flute, and pennywhistle. Playing and listening.
Reading - This one should go without saying.
Tarot - I own an obscene number of decks. I love how they encode information from so many systems, and the way the images function on a level that words can't capture.
Walking - Ironically, when the majority of my writing gets done (albeit in my head).

これで以上です。

Comments

[fawatson]

I remember Mary O'Hara's music - hauntingly lovely. Definitely a happy place.

[lebateleur]

Yes, O'Hara is phenomenal!

[naye]

As someone who does a lot of writing in my head while walking - how do you make it stick? Do you bring a phone/notebook? Or do you have some trick for memorizing things? Because I'm always afraid I'll lose all my words...

[lebateleur]

On rare occasions I'll type something out in my phone's notebook app. But most of the time I don't do anything with it until I'm back home and in a place to write. I do lose things that way, but I think it also helps winnow things down to the ideas and phrasings that are worthwhile enough to stick in my head.

[naye]

Ahh, I see. My walk takes me to work, so usually I have a full workday before I can really write. (Though I do have a notebook to jot ideas into, at least.) But good point on things falling out possibly not being worth keeping...