1. entrench yourself in memories of friends lost or forgotten
2. eat yogurt
3. finish the final 90 pages of The Brothers Karamazov
4. lose money from your pockets as you emerge from the subway and then gaze in wonder as a stranger hands it back to you
5. create a sound loop of a rhythm you can’t get out of your head and listen to it continuously for 1 month
6. sigh, always sigh
7. read and see as much and as far as you can without corrective lenses of any kind
8. banish regret, then return to it, and then banish it again
9. remember to sleep and don’t forget at least one dream
10. find comfort in darkness
11. try not to shrivel up in light
12. stop thinking that you have slighted people and worrying that this is why you have not heard from them since before the holidays… any holidays, any year
13. try not to try
14. fear not

(for D)