Live everywhere you go.
Home does not necessarily need to be a fixed place.Identify less with nations and more with the cosmos.
Labels are useful until they start becoming walls. Eventually, we are dirt and stardust.Learn the language yourself.
From friends, travelling, books, music. Speak it even when speaking it feels uncomfortable.Do what you think is right.
Almost nothing worthwhile is easy.Don’t try too hard to write.
Write continuously. Let it arrive before you start interfering with it.Read your words out loud.
Some things are supposed to exist in a voice, not only on a page.When words fail, make noise.
Preferably with a Selmer Mark VI from the 1950s.Listen properly.
To John Coltrane. To the person in front of you. To birds, cicadas, stray dogs fighting, cows and chickens. Sometimes listening to almost no music is the point.Photograph the garbage.
Decay can be beautiful too.Poor character is ugly.
So is being cruel to people who have nothing to offer you.A good party needs two things:
Good music and an air of freedom.Go home after you’ve had fun and before you’re exhausted.
Second location, maximum, if it’s really giving.A city is a colour palette.
How you feel about a place might tell you more about yourself than it tells you about the place.When you need to disappear:
Studio. Normandy. Vani, Georgia.When you need to see people:
Outside. Anywhere.Cheap meal:
An entire roast chicken for €7. MASTER POULET MÁSTA POULET.Read:
The Yoga Sutras by Patañjali.Carry:
A red book to write in.
A saxophone if your definition of “carry” is unusually ambitious.Own less.
Especially if there is a reasonable possibility you will suddenly decide to move countries again.Vulnerability is strength.
Fall in love before you realise you have.
Stay interested when you are evolving together.
Never make “always” a rule.
HOW TO GO MÁS ALLÁ
A small manual assembled from File N°5.
