- entrench yourself in memories of friends lost or forgotten
- eat yogurt
- finish the final 90 pages of The Brothers Karamazov
- lose money from your pockets as you emerge from the subway and then gaze in wonder as a stranger hands it back to you
- create a sound loop of a rhythm you can’t get out of your head and listen to it continuously for 1 month
- sigh, always sigh
- read and see as much and as far as you can without corrective lenses of any kind
- banish regret, then return to it, and then banish it again
- remember to sleep and don’t forget at least one dream
- find comfort in darkness
- try not to shrivel up in light
- 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
- try not to try
- fear not
(for D)