(a small collection of things i've found over the years)
a folded blue index card with a grocery list handwritten messily on it: flour, baking soda, unsalted butter, sugar, bittersweet chocolate, cake flour, egg whites, lemon juice (this one is scribbled out), cream cheese, heavy cream a photo of a little tabby cat sitting demurely on some concrete. the cat's eyes are friendly and it looks like it wounldn't mind if you gave it a pat a scan of a scrap of paper that's torn on the edges: there's a picture of half a fruitcake on it, and below the fruitcake it says 'Give a gift that changes a life.' a lined sheet of paper torn out of a spiral bound notebook. there's a grocery list messily handwritten on it. parts are more or less illegible, but here's my best guess of what it says: Groceries. berries, carrots, H-crisp apples, walnuts, lime juice, bananas organic (likely), grape tomatoes, meat - chicken wings - ground meat, musli, bars, bread, soy cause (this is crossed out), triscuits, (illegible) rice, (illegible), low sodium beans, low sodium pasta sauce, low sodium lunchmeat, (illegible) veg, white pepper, milk (1/2 gal), (illegible), cheese slices (this is crossed out), sympathy card for Alison, napkins (crossed out), (illegible), paper towels, toilet bowl cleaner, deodorant. a blurry photo of a hand gently holding some low-hanging cherry blossoms. it's dark except where the flash has illuminated the hand, the flowers, and a few more blossoms in the background. the magic the gathering card 'Anjani's Chosen'. the image on it has two lion people and one cheetah person with angry expressions and shining, clawed hands. the text on the card says 'Creature - Cat Soldier. Whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, put a 2/2 white Cat creature token onto the battlefield. If that enchantment is an Aura, you may attach it to the token. 'United, our roar will level mountains.' the art is by Wayne Reynolds. A photograph of someone lying on a grassy field: it's a bright sunny day, and you can see the shadow of the photographer beside them. they are holding two small oranges up to their eyes like they have very protuberant tangerine eyes; I think that, in the background, someone is laughing. a folded yellow post-it note that has written on it: bc43744 password the map from the front of an older edition of the Princess Bride by William Goldman. it's all in blues and reds and it's high stylized: gnarled images of trees, a cave in the shape of a skull, high cliffs and sharks and castles and an elaborate compass rose. it's a fantastical thing and very lovely. a photograph that's mostly just bright, deep blue: it's of the sky, maybe at dusk. in one corner there's a tiny bright smear that must be the moon. in the opposite corner, the silhouettes of the tops of a tower and tree. a card with three red arrows at the top, pointing upward, and below an image. the image is a little blurry, but it seems to be of some kind of medieval art of figures with halos (more saints, perhaps?) in a very ornate frame. you can't see this in the image, but the other side of this card explains that it's an entry pass to visit the vatican. an image of a figure with the shaved-crown hairstyle and brown robes of a Christian monk (a saint, perhaps?) holding a small child. the child has a knowing expression and elaborate halo. a photograph of the photographer's shadow against bright pavement a photo of a very lovely sunset with streaked peach and pink and blue, with scattered clouds. it's grounded by the silhouettes of the tops of some trees on the bottom. it feels deeply calm and quiet. a paper with a line design of overlapping houses and trees. it's charming, in blue on a background yellowed with age. there's a few handwritten numbers in one corner, although they are not very legible. it's an endpaper, torn out of an old book a long time ago.