i've added a tea room: a place to gather my cups of tea and to welcome guests. it's meant as a space for shared presence. i'm glad i managed to include a tokonoma, though i wonder if it feels a touch too formal.

i also set up another space called train-stop, not too different from tea-room. both are guestbooks. if tea-room lets guests share their presence by noting what they drank today, train-stop is for sharing more personal or reflective thoughts.

both tea-room and train-stop were inspired by [chakai](https://chakai.org) and [bus-stop](https://bus-stop.net/#0) - the imageboard and textboard i hung out on during the covid lockdowns. it’s kind of nice to bring them back here.

when i put this site together i wanted it to reflect how i experience things: through separate spaces, each with its own focus and rhythm. instead of a single feed there’s a room for every slice of life. so it made sense to do the same with how people reach me. that’s why in addition to [seedbox](https://moonlit.exposed/seedbox) and tea-room i created train-stop. 

because, you know, sometimes it takes a new space to bring out a different voice, to invite a new kind of conversation.