diff --git a/README b/README
index e819615..ea93156 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ EXAMPLES
 CONCEPTS
      mblaze deals with messages (which are files), folders (which are Maildir
      folders), sequences (which are newline-separated lists of messages,
-     possibly persisted on disk in ~/.mblaze/seq), and the current message
-     (kept as a symlink in ~/.mblaze/cur).
+     possibly persisted on disk in ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/seq), and the
+     current message (kept as a symlink in ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/cur).
 
      Messages in the persisted sequence can be referred to using special
      syntax as explained in mmsg(7).