444 - Environment

Buenas!

Welcome back to 444. I’m Max. I'm a travelling photographer from Australia. 444 is my monthly recap. It collects recent thoughts and conversations honouring when you act with your heart.

This will land into your email at 4:44 from wherever I am in the world on the fourth of every month by signing up here. Each month you will find something 4 me, 4 you, and 4 us.

Expect more typos in this edition from a dance camp near Cali, Colombia. I’m adjusting to Cali’s sleep schedule. Sleep and dance are in constant clashes with each other. I’m connecting to both the latin dance and siesta culture.

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4 us - Sounds of Cali

A change in the order this month. A piece about Cali needs the company of music. This is a playlist of songs I’ve heard in Cali.

Festivals. Restaurants. Ubers. Gyms. Music is everywhere.

Cali is a hub for many different scenes. Salsa. Pacífico. Bachata. Zouk. Kizumba. Reggaeton.

I’m loving absorbing what I can in my short time here.

Listen whilst reading.

4 me - Environment

If it’s nice, travel twice. I’m so grateful to be back in Cali. I fell under its dancing spell in February. I’m back for another six-week block to reconnect with this unique.

Exploring my interests in dance has been difficult in other locations. It requires effort to seek it. In Cali it’s unavoidable.

Dance binds this city together. It’s at the core of social interactions. Dance is everywhere. Everyone dances.

I’ve returned to Cali to see what dancing everyday for an intense prolonged block can do for me. I’m realising new depths to the medicine of movement. When given the opportunity to move, magic follows.

Read a piece on my time in Cali here.

4 you - Where do you thrive?

Existing in certain spaces brings you closer to where you want to be.

It could be a desired feeling or goal. For example, being closer to the mountains to hike; native speakers to practice another language; a thriving dance scene to learn salsa. The immersion and surrounding of like-minded people makes it easy. Access is a multiplier.

Is there a place where a part of you thrives?

Is there a way you can access this regularly?

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Before you go, check out my Guna Yala Postcards shipping this month. All profits support the Caledonia traditional dance school in the San Blas Islands.

Ciao,

Max