mossgarden

a small corner of the old web ✦ est. 2025 ✦ best viewed with curiosity

✦ welcome to my garden ✦

hello, wanderer! you've found my little plot on the internet. i use this space to write about things i love — books, walks, slow mornings, and whatever else is rattling around in my head.

feel free to look around. sign my guestbook if you stay awhile.

recent posts

  • on the ritual of rereading
    there are books i return to every few years, not to remember the plot, but to see what's changed in me...
  • february light
    there is a specific quality of afternoon light in late winter that i find almost unbearably beautiful...
  • a short defence of doing nothing
    the most subversive thing i do each week is sit by the window with no phone and no task...

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  • on the ritual of rereading
    there are books i return to every few years, not to remember the plot, but to see what's changed in me. this time i picked up a novel i first read at seventeen. it felt like meeting someone i used to be.
  • february light
    there is a specific quality of afternoon light in late winter that i find almost unbearably beautiful. it comes in low and honey-coloured, and everything it touches looks significant.
  • a short defence of doing nothing
    the most subversive thing i do each week is sit by the window with no phone and no task. not meditation. not journaling. just sitting. it took me a long time to stop feeling guilty about it.
  • notes from the market
    the saturday market smells like wet stone and cardamom. i go most weeks just to stand near the bread stall and feel like part of something.
  • why i started this site
    i missed the internet feeling small. social media made everything loud and comparative. here it's just me and whoever finds their way here by accident.

reviews

📗

the overstory

richard powers · 2018 · book
★★★★★
changed the way i look at every tree i pass. one of those rare books that genuinely alters you.
🎞

past lives

celine song · 2023 · film
★★★★★
quiet and devastating. i sat in the car after and didn't want to move.
🎵

history of a feeling

field medic · 2021 · album
★★★★☆
lo-fi folk for people who journal in coffee shops. i mean that as the highest compliment.
📘

piranesi

susanna clarke · 2020 · book
★★★★★
unlike anything else. i finished it in one sitting and immediately started again from the beginning.
🎬

aftersun

charlotte wells · 2022 · film
★★★★★
the way memory and grief blur together. haunts me still, two years later.
🍵

wuyi oolong (2023)

yongshun tea · 2023 · tea
★★★★☆
roasty and mineral. exactly what i want on a grey morning. the second steep is the best.

who

mossgarden

✦ hello there

i go by mossgarden online. i made this site because i missed having a corner of the internet that felt like mine — not an algorithm's version of me, just a place i tend to by hand.

i write about books, films, music, tea, and slow living. i post when i have something worth saying, which is not always often.

locationsomewhere with good rain
agelate twenties
readingorbital by samantha harvey
drinkingoat flat white, always
listeningsufjan stevens lately
lovesold maps, linen, secondhand bookshops, morning fog, quiet kitchens
online since2025