How to enjoy a lightness of being:

• Fall in love.

• Remind yourself of who you are beyond your community, religion, upbringing, time and space.

• See yourself in everyone and everything around you.

• Make art with your densest thoughts.

• Spend time with animals.

• Do not believe what you do not see and perceive face-to-face.

• Surrender control of what is uncertain.

• Embody a childlike innocence, curiosity and wonder for the world.

• Keep your friendships private.

• Know that you are extraordinary and that miracles conspire in your favour no matter what your reality looks like.

How to climb a tree

• Bum first. Upper body strength is important.

• With your thighs and back rolls.

• One arm swinging. Like a trapeze artist. Like Tarzan.

• With hugs. Arm arm knee knee.

• Using a rope to haul oneself up.

• Using a rope to lasso oneself up.

• Using the power of one's imagination.

• With claw-shaped fingertips and fingernails grown out.

• With good friends.

Things to write about:

• Trees and their beautiful silent presence around us.

• About road trips, friendships, girl travel and seeking spontaneous adventures.

• About emotion ~ the feeling body and its effect on the body-body.

• All things delicious ~ ripe fruit, curated meals and after bath oils.

• About keeping safe.

• About thread ~ all kinds of fabric and patterns, delicate weaves and soft cascades of clothing.

• About medicine and to understand what to blend from the world into my body.

• About music ~ all the various notes life has raised into my attention, the sounds of the world, home made music, unsung melodies, the song of conversation, the calls of creatures, advertising jingles just before the words come in, the tunes of nature.

• About craft work... intricately created designs made by hand for no particular reason ~ candy wrapper dolls, a well sharpened pencil, origami roses and butterflies, nib paintings.

• About esoteric experiences ~ realisations and embodiments.

• About culture ~ people, food rituals, land and real estate, language, traditions, habits, self-help and psychology.

• Mentors, collective consciousness, respect for teachers and being trained by the best.

• Environment and their effect on the mind and body.

• About how to be a student.

• About universally unanswered questions.

• About sex and sensuality.

• Thinking instruments ~ ink, crayons, pencils, charcoal, all kinds of paints, paint brushes, pens, fingertips and a blank page.

• The Indian railway system.

• About sisterhood and all-girls-schools, about dads & daughters, about the mothers of our world.

• Nights and days.

• Books.

• The internet, freedom of speech and tech-tools that help feed the mind.

• About advertising, word-play, mind bending and capitalistic culture.

• About professional filmmaking, teamwork and recreating reality.

• About living like an artist.

• Tattoos and piercings.

• About a girl pretending to be a boy.

• The past, people shedding, death and aftercare.

• About inventing.

• About making a home.

• About kids at play, imaginary friends, growing up good, board games and mind activities.

• Signs and symbolisms.

• About jam sessions, intellectual conversations and speaking from source to feed the adult soul.

• Forest etiquette and jungle living.

• About love for the world and personal boundaries.