At attempt at cataloging my experiences; home.

birds

American bittern
American coot
American crow
American goldfinch
American kestrel
American robin
Anna's hummingbird
Bald eagle
Barn swallow
Barred owl
Belted kingfisher
Bewick's wren
Black-capped chickadee
Black-headed grosbeak
Black oystercatcher
Black phoebe
Brewer's blackbird
Brown creeper
Brown-headed cowbird
Brown pelican
Bullock's oriole
Bushtit
Bus stop owl
California scrub-jay
Canadagoose
Caspian tern
Cedar waxwing
Chimney swift
Cinnamon teal
Clay-colored swallow
Cliff swallow
Common merganser
Common murre
Common yellowthroat
Cooper's hawk
Dark-eyed junco
Double-crested cormorant
Downy woodpecker
Eastern kingbird
European starling
Gadwall
Golden eagle
Golden-crowned kinglet
Great blue heron
Great egret
Green heron
Harlequin duck
House finch
Hudsonian whimbrel
Indigo bunting
Killdeer
Lazuli bunting
Lesser goldfinch
Longbilled dowitcher
Mallard
Mourning dove
Northern cardinal
Northern flicker
Northern house wren
Northern mockingbird
Northern pintail
Northern rough-winged swallow
Northern shoveler
Northern yellow warbler
Osprey
Pelagic cormorant
Peregrine falcon
Pied-billed grebe
Pigeon
Pigeon guillemot
Pileated woodpecker
Purple martin
Red-breasted sapsucker
Red-tailed hawk
Red-winged blackbird
Ring-necked duck
Sandhill crane
Sandpiper
Semipalmated plover
Snowy plover
Song sparrow
Sora
Spotted towhee
Stller's jay
Swainson's thrush
Tree swallow
Tufted puffin
Turkey vulture
Vaux's swift
Violet-green swallow
Virginia rail
Western bluebird
Western gull
White-crowned sparrow
White pelican
White-winged dove
Wilson's phalarope
Wood duck
Yellow-breasted chat
Yellow-headed blackbird

books ( adult )

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
The Way of a Pilgrim, Anonymous


Goodnight Punpun, Inio Asano
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
The Forest Brims Over, Maru Ayase


Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times, Selected Haiku of Matsuo Basho
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Matsuo Basho
Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica
Beginning to Pray, Anthony Bloom
Living Prayer, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Jillian, Halle Butler
The New Me, Halle Butler


The Stranger, Albert Camus ( en & fr )
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad


Early Light, Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky


Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
A Simple Heart, Gustave Flaubert
Maurice, EM Forster


Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
A Man, Keiichiro Hirano
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley


The Woman in the Purple Skirt, Natsuko Imamura
Tomie, Junji Ito


My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, Nagata Kabi
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The White Book, Han Kang
Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
Heaven, Mieko Kawakami
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer


Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric LaRocca
The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
Till We Have Faces, CS Lewis


Grass for My Pillow, Saiichi Maruya
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss
The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
Audition, Ryu Murakami
Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
Eartlings, Sayaka Murata
Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata


Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Little Birds, Anaïs Nin


The Moomins and the Great Flood, Tove Jansson
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo


A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe
Upstream: Selected Essays, Mary Oliver
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Factory, Hiroko Oyamada
Hole, Hiroko Oyamada


The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath


I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid
The Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke


The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( en & fr )
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Franny & Zooey, JD Salinger
Nine Stories, JD Salinger
101 Zen Stories, Nyogen Senzaki & Paul Reps
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Botchan, Natsume Soseki
Kokoro, Nastume Soseki
The Miner, Natsume Soseki, trans. Jay Rubin
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa


Devils in Daylight, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
In Praise of Shadows, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Naomi, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
Confession, Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy


The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Stoner, John Williams
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams


Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto
Hardboiled & Hard Luck, Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
The Lake, Banana Yoshimoto
Lizard, Banana Yoshimoto
Moshi Moshi, Banana Yoshimoto
The Premonition, Banana Yoshimoto


Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

books ( childhood & adolescence )

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Feed, MT Anderson


A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah


Ender's Game #1 & #2, Orson Scott Card
The Hunger Games Trilogy, Suzanne Collins


The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
Papertowns, John Green


All the Lovely Bad Ones, Mary Downing Hahn
Deep and Dark and Dangerous, Mary Downing Hahn
The Doll in the Garden, Mary Downing Hahn
The Old Willis Place, Mary Downing Hahn
Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn
Dragonlance Chronicles, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Dragonlance Legends, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Outsiders, SE Hinton
Babymouse, Matthew & Jennifer L Holm


Carrie, Stephen King
The Gunslinger, Stephen King
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1-4, Jeff Kinney


Game of Thrones #1 & #2, George RR Martin
Rainbow Fairies, Daisy Meadows


Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
Percy Jackson & the Olympians #1-4, Rick Riordan
Dork Diaries, Rachel Renee Russell


Septimus Heap, Annie Sage
Bone, Jeff Smith
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf, Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell


Quarantine #1, Lex Thomas
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein


cities

Astoria, OR
Austin, TX
Canon Beach, OR
Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas, TX
Eugene, OR
Florence, OR
Garibaldi, OR
Houston, TX
Huntington Beach, CA
Kyoto, JP
Los Angeles, CA
Nara, JP
Nasushiobara, JP
New York City, NY
Osaka, JP
Port Aransas, TX
Portland, OR
Prineville, OR
Tillamook, OR
Tokyo, JP
Seattle, WA
Shizuoka, JP
Vancouver, WA
Warm Springs, OR

religious
Buddhist temples — beautiful enough to make me cry, but I just didn't believe in it
church basement, hearing the service above
church isn't about Michael's feelings, it's about God's feelings
church with Mippy
dalmatian church
"Dogs have dog emotions & angels have angel emotions"
dreamt about standing outside of church, wanting to be left in, "the Holy Trinity working in your heart"
dreamt about hell or purgatory, soaking wet
fell asleep to the Akathist to the Theotokos on the bus in the mornings; rained on my prayer book
hit by a car, I knew I'd be fine
Jesus Prayer
my second chance life
nondenominational Japanese church
Pascha walked in circles around the TX church
flower petals on the ground in the OR church, with Suzanne, she forgot to cover her hair
prayed the rosary
sobbed in church & the roof didn't fall in
Trappist abbey, with Suzanne

short stories

Bread, Margaret Atwood
Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin
Me and Miss Mandible, Donald Barthelme
The School, Donald Barthelme
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
The Love of My Life, TC Boyle
A Sound of Thunder, Ray Bradbury
There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury
The Guest, Albert Camus
The Lady With the Dog, Anton Chekov
The Storm, Kate Chopin
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison
A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gillman
A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell
Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
To Build a Fire, Jack London
The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant
Something Special, Iris Murdoch
The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
The Chrysanthemums. John Steinbeck

sickness & injury
anemia
blood drawing
bloody noses throughout childhood
burned by heat lamp at work
cat scratches
cavities, fillings, crowns
chronic / constant shoulder / back pain
common cold
COVID
COVID test
cut myself with various implements
ear infection
echocardiogram
eye infection, woke up with my eyes crusted shut in elementary school
fainted & hit my head
flu
foot stomped on
groped
hair pulled
hit by car
hit with encyclopedia
holter monitor
IV
migraine
mono
one of my eyes was swollen shut for a week coupled with a terrible headache
period pain
pinched
pregnancy test
rheumatic fever
shoulder injury ( library books )
shrimp allergy
slapped
sleep paralysis
spanked
staph infection
strep throat
stomach ulcer
stung by bee or wasp
tendonitis
threw up every morning before school in middle school
threw up every morning before work when I worked at Sonic
threw up every morning before student teaching
threw up every morning when I went back to work after moving to OR, substitute teaching
threw up every time I got on the train
threw up every time I went to the airport
threw up every time I went to the movie theatre
threw up at Ikea after eating Swedish meatballs
threw up on myself at target & Mom bought me a change of clothes
threw up every time I stayed at my mom's house
threw up over & over again the night before I left Japan
threw up blood
throat swab
ultrasound
vaccinations
various UTIs
woke up while getting my fillings done
X-ray

toys

an archaeology kit my aunt who worked at the big museum in New York got me where I dug out a fake dinosaur skull
Bop It
Calico Critters
Disney princess constumes, Snow White, Aurora
a dollhouse, wooden, that I spent holiday money on at an age where I was ostensibly too old for it
dolls
Easy-Bake Oven
Floam
Hot Wheels
Lalaloopsy ( mostly my sister's )
Lego
Lincoln Logs
Lite-Brite
Littlest Pet Shops
magic kit that I never learned to use, but would still play with
Mighty Beanz ( my dad had a collection of superhero ones )
Monster High Dolls ( mostly my sister's )
My Little Pony
Nerf guns
Nintendo DS
Pillow Pet
Play-Doh
Pokémon cards
Polly Pocket
putty
Rainbow Loom
Shopkins ( mostly my sister's )
those sticky hands you get from capsule machines, I would stick them to my bedroom ceiling
Squinkies ( mostly my sister's )
Squirmle
stuffed animals
trains, wooden tracks, magentized ends of traincars that could connect with each other
ZhuZhu Pets