spring arrived quietly for me this year, but this place has been buzzing with presence.

the waiting room at train-stop overflows with notes from visitors. the wall is covered in drawings. the meadow has twelve small creatures now and my inbox has messages from friends i've never met. tea keeps brewing. cups keep filling.

so what's new?

a ghost has moved into the homepage now. they haunt cursors and whisper words.  the mp3-player now includes radio stations. gondola got rebuilt from the ground up. over at tea-room, there's a little nonsense quiz about eggs. not-too-far-across-the-fence and backroom have new things too, if you wander that far.

the ascii field has hidden links now: windows light up as if lamps were lit inside, critters wiggle at play. and fireworks bloom during holidays, bringing seasonal touches.

i'd always wanted to build a workshop for people to craft their own worry-dolls, to ease what weighs on them. but it would mean another place for creating small figures, and that felt too close to what the meadow already does. so instead i built worry-dome. you can now write your worries onto sky-lanterns and release them up. each day, one lantern per person. when others visit the dome and touch these floating worries, the lanterns glow a little warmer as if comforted by being witnessed.

and one more thing: the site closes during the day now. most of it, anyway. public spaces like train-stop and tea-room stay open though. because they've become gathering places in ways i hadn't expected. it seems like this place grows thanks to you.