diff --git a/templates/base.html.tera b/templates/base.html.tera
index 7c92ced..6d99982 100644
--- a/templates/base.html.tera
+++ b/templates/base.html.tera
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png"/>
     <title>{% block title %}{% endblock title %}</title>
     <meta name="author" content="glyph">
-    <meta name="description" content="The personal website of glyph.">
+    <meta name="description" content="Welcome to the personal website of glyph: a mycelial technologist coding and cultivating a decentralized, multispecies future. On my site you will find art, musings and projects relating to carbon-based and silicon-based technologies. Sowing seeds of symbiosis, weaving webs of wu wei.">
     <meta name="keywords" content="botany, coding, electronics, fermentation, fungi, meditation, mycology, plants">
     <style>
       a {
diff --git a/templates/home.html.tera b/templates/home.html.tera
index bd4ff16..8e987ec 100644
--- a/templates/home.html.tera
+++ b/templates/home.html.tera
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 {% block title %}mycelial technology | glyph{% endblock title %}
 {% block content %}
     <img src="glyph.svg" style="width: 175px;" />
-    <p>Welcome to the personal website of glyph.</p>
+    <p>Welcome to the personal website of glyph: a mycelial technologist coding and cultivating a decentralized, multispecies future. On my site you will find art, musings and projects relating to carbon-based and silicon-based technologies.</p>
+    <p>[ sowing seeds of symbiosis | weaving webs of wu wei ]</p>
     <h2>Contact Information</h2>
     <ul style="padding: 0;">
       <li class="list-item">Email: <a href="mailto:glyph@mycelial.technology" title="glyph's Email address">glyph@mycelial.technology</a></li>
diff --git a/templates/lists.html.tera b/templates/lists.html.tera
index 4f8f451..cf0a998 100644
--- a/templates/lists.html.tera
+++ b/templates/lists.html.tera
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
     <h3>Books</h3>
     <p>Currently Reading</p>
     <ul>
-      <li><i>A Closed and Common Orbit</i> - Becky Chambers</li>
       <li><i>Radical Mycology</i> - Peter McCoy</li>
       <li><i>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</i> - Susanna Clarke</li>
     </ul>
     <p>Previously Read</p>
     <ul>
+      <li><i>A Closed and Common Orbit</i> - Becky Chambers</li>
       <li><i>Ready Player One</i> - Ernest Cline</li>
       <li><i>Red Moon</i> - Kim Stanley Robinson</li>
       <li><i>Mythago Wood</i> - Robert Holdstock</li>