Retrieval Decks

Small physical rituals for noticing what modern life makes easy to lose.

Shuffle instead of scroll. Pull one true thing. Return to your life.

What is a Retrieval Deck?

A finite, tactile deck designed to help you retrieve a truth, movement, image, memory, or ordinary evidence your nervous system has stopped registering.

Retrieval Decks do not tell you who to become. They place a small, true cue in your hand and trust your nervous system to do the rest.

The Decks

Ordinary Love

Ordinary love leaves ordinary evidence.

  • The Lamp
  • The Pantry
  • Ugly House
  • The Coffee Pot
  • The Porch Chair
  • Welcome Anyway

Uncle Mike

A life that mattered because it was lived.

  • The Door Took Twenty Minutes
  • There Was Always a Book
  • The Game Was the Excuse
  • Small Towns Remember
  • Make Room for Another Chair
  • An Archive Waiting for an Editor

The Bed Is a Liar

Stand up before you think.

  • Don't Decide Horizontal
  • Follow My Feet
  • Momentum Is Medicine
  • Nothing Has Gone Wrong
  • Your Brain Needs Traction
  • Get Vertical. Then Check Again.

A note from Kati

Retrieval Decks are the next volume of a practice I have been doing for decades: noticing what other people walk past, preserving it beautifully, and handing it back.

I have spent years noticing ordinary life with editorial devotion: family interviews, local publishing, photographs of real houses, porch rituals, ugly hospitality, and the ordinary evidence that people are loved. These decks are the result.

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