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24 Aug 24

Big Small Talk

I’ve been learning to speak Italian for a year now, and to say that it has been difficult would be akin to saying that gelato is like ice cream… a tremendous understatement.

At the moment I feel like I have all the pieces of a 10000-piece jigsaw puzzle thrown out on a coffee table in front of me, and my work (in-progress) is to find the pieces that go together.

24 Aug 24

Big Small Talk

I’ve been learning to speak Italian for a year now, and to say that it has been difficult would be akin to saying that gelato is like ice cream… a tremendous understatement.

At the moment I feel like I have all the pieces of a 10000-piece jigsaw puzzle thrown out on a coffee table in front of me, and my work (in-progress) is to find the pieces that go together.

21 Jan 24

Il dolce far niente

For many Italians ‘Il dolce far niente’, the ‘sweetness of doing nothing’ is an essential part of a meaningful life. But...

30 Dec 23

Piano Piano

Piano piano…I am sitting in Rome, on the balcony of a building which was built in the 1500s. In front of...

14 Jan 22

What can't you do - yet?

I have recently learned a new sport. It’s called padel, and combines the best of squash, tennis and beach bats. I...

30 Apr 21

Today, I am grateful.

Today I’m grateful.Imagine a person decided they would improve their physical well-being by walking 3km daily. In time, the benefits of...

25 Jan 21

Permission to be okay with not being okay

It sounds cliché to say this, but: where did January go? A month which is often experienced as one full of...

21 Dec 20

make it a truly New Year

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the...

23 Nov 20

Which program is running your iOS - individual operating system

I recently read an article on Heart UK, titled “bad school reports”, which told about the school report comments of successful...

18 Oct 20

The Potentially High Price of Never Saying No

A friend recently introduced me to the ground-breaking work of Dr Gabor Matè. I have now consumed many hours of YouTube...

14 Sep 20

KNOW YOURSELF

I considered writing my first blog article about procrastination but decided to wait until later for that subject. ‘Quitting’ was another...