Signpost to leave behind
For things you are winding down
Bones to ReefLet the ending feed something.
When a whale dies at sea it sinks to the floor and feeds life for decades - scavengers first, then crabs and worms, then bacteria on the bare bones, and finally a reef that grows on the skeleton. Closing a club, a newsletter, a stall or a side project can work the same way. List what yours leaves behind and see where each part settles.
1 What is ending free
2 The whale fall free
3 Ask for the sorting
One run settles any leftover the page could not sort, gives every leftover a taker from your own list (or you, or nobody yet) and a first move, reads the whole ending, and writes a short note to leave where the thing used to be. The page re-checks the reply against what you typed.
The sorting - none yet
-The page's check
4 Saved falls
How the page sorts a leftover
A whale fall feeds the deep sea in four overlapping stages. The page borrows them for an ending: 1 scavengers (days to weeks) - things someone carries off and uses at once, like kit, stock or money; 2 enrichers (weeks to months) - an audience, list, place or slot another group can keep using; 3 slow feeders (months to years) - notes, templates, archives and other know-how; 4 reef (years) - friendships, skills, habits or a name that can host something new.
The page reads the words of each line against fixed word lists; a line that matches two stages takes the lower one, and a line it cannot place drifts near the surface as still sinking until a run settles it. A run never moves a line the page has already placed. Takers only ever come from your own list - or you, or nobody yet.
The reading follows a fixed order: no end date yet comes first, then half or more of the leftovers with nobody to take them, then whether anything reaches the reef. Money that belongs to a group should be handed over openly. This is a playful planning tool, not legal, financial or professional advice.