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# My Wishlist
## What is this?
This page is a list of wishes, a la [taylor.town/wish-manifesto](https://taylor.town/wish-manifesto), both tangible and intangible.

## On gifts
If you're here for gift ideas, thank you for thinking of me! While I am genuinely grateful for your consideration, when I look about me I get the impression that I don't really need more objects in the house to store, clean, and look after. For the sake of the environment, I try to reduce the amount of widgets I call into existence by paying for them (or having others pay for them on my behalf). I am also fortunate enough to be able to buy myself pretty much everything I need[^1], so please, rid yourself of any feeling of obligation whatsoever to buy me a gift!

However if abstention seems unconscionable, I would be delighted if you were to make a charitable donation on my behalf; I would also happily receive any of the consumable items below.

## Tangible

### Charitable donations
* [Arch Linux](https://archlinux.org/) - Arch Linux is a lightweight and flexible GNU/Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.
* [Black Lives Matter (USA)](https://blacklivesmatter.com/)
* [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/) - The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom.
* [Howard Brown (Chicago, USA)](https://howardbrown.org/) - Howard Brown provides free and sliding scale general health, sexual health and reproductive care, and counseling and support services in Chicago, with focus on care for the LGBTQ+ community.
* [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/) - Inkscape is a free/libre and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS.
* [KDE](https://kde.org/) - "We are a community of technologists, designers, writers and advocates who work to ensure freedom for all people through our software."
* [Krita](https://krita.org/en/) - Krita is a professional free/libre and open source painting program made by artists who want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
* [National Immigrant Justice Center (USA, Midwest)](https://immigrantjustice.org/) - "The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) defends the rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers."
* [Northwest Side Solidarity Network (Chicago, USA)](https://www.northwestsidesolidarity.com/) - "We work in solidarity with mutual aid groups throughout the city to ensure that all our neighbors have access to the resources that they need. Our work focuses on the Northwest side of the city, where we host a monthly free food-pop up with fresh produce, dairy, dried and canned goods."
* [Palestine Children's Relief Fund](https://www.pcrf.net/) - Provides free medical care to thousands of injured and ill children yearly who lack local access to care within the local health care system.
* [Transactual (UK)](https://transactual.org.uk/) - A trans-led UK based organization working towards a world where trans people can live safely, in dignity and with access to the healthcare they need.
* [Transgender Law Center (USA)](https://transgenderlawcenter.org/) - "Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation."
* [Trans Lifeline (USA)](https://translifeline.org/) - "Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for trans people."
* [Zrythm](https://www.zrythm.org/en/index.html) - A highly automated and intuitive free/libre and open source digital audio workstation.

### Food
* Vegan haggis - I just miss haggis, and I remember vegan / vegetarian haggis being quite good. I did make a batch of my own once with TVP and it was nice, but it took ages to make.

### Incense
* [Baieido Tokusen Kobunboku](https://kikohincense.com/collections/baieido-incense/products/tokusen-kobunboku)
* [Inca Aromas White Breu](https://tarotarts.com/products/inca-aromas-all-natural-fair-trade-incense-white-breu-for-clarity-and-spirituality?variant=39838738251860)
* [Kida Jinseido Ranjatai Incense](https://kikohincense.com/collections/kida-jinseido-incense-since-1937/products/kida-jinseido-ranjatai-incense)
* [Minorien Kyara Fu-In](https://kikohincense.com/collections/minorien-incense-kikoh/products/minorien-kyara-fu-in-incense)
* [Shoyeido Horin Assortment](https://shoyeido.com/products/horin-incense-assortment-sampler)
* [Shoyeido Kohbai Pressed Incense](https://shoyeido.com/products/kohbai-red-plum-blossoms?variant=41714738921590)
* [Shoyeido Kunro Incense Assortment](https://shoyeido.com/products/kunro-incense-assortment)
* [Shoyeido Premium Incense Sampler](https://shoyeido.com/products/premium-incense-assortment-sampler)
* [Tennendo Hagi Rose Incense](https://kikohincense.com/collections/tennendo-incense-kikoh/products/tennendo-hagi-rose-incense)
* [Tennendo Hanano Byakudan](https://www.japanincense.com/tn-0051.html)
* [Tennendo Kyara Incense](https://kikohincense.com/products/tennendo-kyara-incense)
* [Tennendo Sumire Violet Incense](https://kikohincense.com/products/tennendo-ysumire-violet-incense)

### Tea
* A malty black tea from either [Spirit Tea](https://spirittea.co/) or [Yunnan Sourcing](https://yunnansourcing.com/).
* A peachy white tea from either [Spirit Tea](https://spirittea.co/) or [Yunnan Sourcing](https://yunnansourcing.com/).
* A savory oolong from from either [Spirit Tea](https://spirittea.co/) or [Yunnan Sourcing](https://yunnansourcing.com/).

## Intangible

### Life
* To learn more math.
* To be better able to listen and trust when people describe their challenges.
* To become a very good programmer.
* To be more patient.
* To find a form of exercise that fits neatly into my life, and is fun and engaging enough that it doesn't feel like drudgery.
* To have control over my own time, rather have to cede it to an employer for survival.
* To learn C++ so I can contribute to KDE projects and Scribus.
* To learn German.
* To learn Rust.
* To learn Spanish *well*.
* To live in a house in the Scottish countryside, where I can spend my ample free time cooking, playing the trombone, messing about with computers, and making incense.
* To no longer have to worry about money.
* Warm hands and feet at all times.

### Society
* Anyone who declares a war fights on the front lines.
* Common ownership of public utilities and production facilities.
* Equitable access to spaces and resources for everyone.
* For people to have the humility to be able to change their beliefs when faced with evidence to the contrary.
* For people to listen and trust when others describe their challenges.
* For people to recognize that systemic violence *is violence*.
* For people to stop worrying about things that don't affect them and instead focus on issues that materially impact their daily lives.
* For religion and any form of magical thinking to disappear in favor of basing beliefs on evidence and logic.
* Healthcare, education, housing, and any resource necessary to sustain life to be free for all.

[^1]: Within reason—if you are filthy rich and would like to buy me a house or finance an escape to the UK for my partner and I, I'll not slap your hand away.
