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Week #33: Birthday song
I stretched a trip home by two days to spend my birthday with family for the first time in almost two decades.
2 days ago1 min read
Week #32: Climbing
Oct. 18th - 24th Saw a few clips from a documentary about someone who climbed mountains without a rope. He also flew across the sky with a bird suit on. After each encounter with mortality he looked to be in a state of ecstasy. “When you face death and live, life becomes so simple.” He looked off camera. To wake up is to fly. Here's my week: Writing: 9 hrs Music: 4 hrs Band admin: 3 hrs Stacking days
Oct 251 min read
Week #30: Believing it
My writing coach talks about my wins as if they’ve already happened. I decided to follow her example
Oct 111 min read
Week #29: Blinking
This week I heard someone say that the best art is indefensible; there are no reasons for why it was created and no explanations need to be made for it.
Oct 41 min read
Week #28: Bravo
A trip to New York on a whim, a friend on two different stages, and closing the gap between what I say and what I do.
Sep 201 min read
Week #27: Hijacking
September 7th - 12th. Getting called out by a 2000-year-old philosopher.
Sep 131 min read
Points of failure: Rushing back
My eagerness to make things work before they were ready created a bigger setback.
May 312 min read
Points of failure: The full view
In April I completed something that started twenty years ago.
Apr 263 min read
Paúl Rivera Melo
Paúl Rivera Melo is a Dominican-born, Chicago-based touring musician and writer of essays and short fiction. With roots in the Caribbean, his work draws from the melodies and vocabulary of the region, while using the unique scope of his diaspora experience to craft stories of striving and survival.
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