Without really realizing it we just marked three years in London. An occasion born from my original placement in Paris.
This year has been one of those years to take stock of what the past years have brought us and all the many many things learned along the way that we never would have known if still in comfortable Vancouver.
The hard thing about all the lessons learned through doing hard things is the challenge to relate them to friends and colleagues after the initial curiosity quickly fades. Truth is how can you translate, without extreme boredom, such personal and individual experiences.
My fear is that all the little things from everyday will some day start to feel ordinary.
My hope is that having joined one of the planet's most exciting emerging creative dynamos full of Dreamers and Doers that life will be anything but ordinary.
So maybe it is time to re-grasp for myself the classical spirit of blogging. The unpolished and often unformed points. The observations, noticing and random of life. Maybe the mundane, maybe insane, maybe neither.
I am going to dissolve the artificial wall between work and non work life. There will be some work things, some food things, events and activities, some boring stuff about natural wine, probably things related to my book Everyday Paris and undoubtedly travel bits. Whatever seems worth noticing for myself. Maybe, just maybe, you'll find it interesting.
It won't be over polished or conceptualised. It won't be overly self aware, it might come accross as pompous at times, trite at others. Not by design but that's how it may seem, to you. The stretch is the point.
Right, so let's see how this goes.
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