Ordinary Life Archive
Collector's Resources
A growing collection of simple tools for collecting the life you're living while you're living it.
Begin anywhere. There is no catching up. There is no falling behind.
Starter Sheet No. 001
Begin Here
Start your Ordinary Life Archive with five pieces of evidence that you were here: a photograph, a color, a scrap, a sentence, and a small thing.
Collecting Sheet No. 002
The Sky Today
Collect the sky across one ordinary day: look up four times, paint the color you find, and keep four fleeting pieces of the day overhead.
Collecting Sheet No. 003
Things I Almost Missed
A simple practice for collecting five small things you might otherwise have passed by—and making a record of what caught your attention.
Collecting Sheet No. 004
The Shape of a Day.
Collecting Sheet for noticing the patterns, rhythms, and little details that make one day unlike another.
Coming Soon:
Things Worth Keeping.
Collecting Sheet for gathering the small evidence of your days.
Coming Soon:
Evidence of Place.
Collecting Sheet for gathering the colors, textures, words, and traces of the places you move through.
Collect with Us
New collecting invitations, Field Notes, and glimpses from the Ordinary Life Archive are shared on Substack.