I'm a writer, hustler, romantic and contrarian. Western-born with Eastern Zen. I miss the mountains and the winter sun. The sound of wolves howling in the wind. I know exactly how they feel.
Travel and good fiction are the antidote to stupidity and routine. I don't mean reading novels on some posh beach at some crowded resort. I mean, ordering in a foreign restaurant some food you've never heard of. I mean Tarkovsky, Eric Rohmer, Ozu, Claire Denis, Kiarostami and Wong Kar-Wai. I mean letting yourself get lost and finding your way home and falling in love on the way. Has that ever happened to you?