BySara Colvin

Sara Colvin writes from her bedroom above a biker bar in San Francisco. She likes pho, the Mitford sisters, and Frasier reruns.

  1. Position yourself, whenever possible, at the top of a flight of stairs. This will inspire, either in you or your beholder, a visceral recognition of mortality. Remember: mortality is beauty.

    Alternatively, just be always on the verge of death. Achieve a frailty so extreme that rainwater collects in the hollows between your bones.

    If you can swing it, be a horse or a boat or a whale.

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