Esoteric & Based Memo #1

The First

1. A Book

Siddartha by Herman Hesse, 1922

My father gifted me this book when I was 16, one month after I began outpatient treatment for clinical depression and exactly one year and two months before he was brutally murdered. He wrote a note to me on the inside which ends with “read it at its own deliberate pace & let it come to you.” I reread it yearly a…