Re: [Response.] In India, chai is made at the sides of the roads, or the railway and drunk quickly in small cups. In India it's both ritualized but also part of every day and I like that, don't you? That something mundane can also be something old and precious. Let it steep for a while and add warm milk to it, not cold.
I'm surprised you say you've been married but you've never been in love. I thought most people entered into it at least thinking they were, but it sounds unhappy. I'm sorry if it was. New York is my home, or it was for a long time. Repose works into you like seeds, slowly and creeping until you're rooted. I think it's a nice thing to have.
I don't know how love works as a practitioner instead of observer. We weren't very good at it when we were boys and I think what happened with Oliver was because we didn't learn how to say it or think it or believe in it the right way. I think love must be love but people fall out of it or it fractures and I'm not sure how you repair things that are broken. I used to move too often to stick around after they were and I never learned how.
I think it's brave to try new things over and over. Doesn't something you like repeated too often lose its pleasure? What sorts of things do you know you like?
I do like the strange people I work with, very much. The place has changed rapidly over the years I've been working there and people come and go but I stay the same. People don't always give away their stories but everyone has one. I do too.
Your whole life got set out of kilter, then. You get to try anything you want before deciding to fix it into place. Take advantage, sunshine. Make the world give you the very best it has to offer,