"Volume 002" - Entry 004
Entry 04 - Learning To Read
Filed from The road - "on the road"
I’d never really read a book. The reading difficulties I had at school stuck with me, and after that there was never much reason to try again.
" Worth Remembering "
It was Elena who encouraged me to start.
Somewhere on that same road, I picked up my first laptop, an old secondhand thing, and began teaching myself the programs I’d need for what was coming. Graphic design for the screen printing.
Photo editing. How to actually use a camera properly, not just point it at something. Website work, eventually.
And alongside all of that, I started reading properly for the first time in my life. Virgil Abloh’s books. Bobby Hundreds’ This Is Not a T Shirt. Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act.
Slow going at first, but it stuck.
All of this happened in that van, somewhere between Finland and Italy, and later once we’d stopped moving and I’d stopped drinking. Learning to read and learning to build something both happened at the same time.
I couldn’t tell you which one came first.
