Sometimes the boring things in life are not so boring when you give them a little game. The Mayor told me about this yellow car game. When you drive a long distance and you see a yellow car, you must say, “Yellow car!” Even when you are in the middle of a sentence with your…
When Fruitloop called me for the lesson, I was already prepared for chaos. Not bad chaos. Just the normal kind. The funny kind. The kind where we start speaking about balance in life and somehow finish with flamingos making shrimp pizza. Honestly, with Fruitloop, this is very normal. First, she told me we had to…
There are mornings when life feels beautifully organised. And then there are mornings when I leave my apartment on the 14th floor without my glasses and my phone. This Thursday’s Lunch meeting began exactly where many honest conversations begin: with someone saying, “I’m okay. Just okay.” That someone was me. Fruitloop greeted me warmly, already…
When The Mayor showed me the cartoon, I liked it very much. I was quite touched by it, actually. The idea was simple, but also completely absurd in the right way. Garbage are playing at The Piece Hall in Halifax on the 16th of June, with Skunk Anansie, and somehow I am not only at…
I had reservations about this topic before we started. Creative play in daily life. For some people, maybe this sounds easy. For me, not really. I can talk about customers. I can talk about football. I can talk about family, driving, meetings, distributors, sales numbers, and how to build a relationship step by step. These…
Yesterday, Janita had rain all day. The real kind of rain. The kind that settles in for hours and makes the whole world feel grey and wet and slightly tired. Her father had measured fifty millimetres in the garden and she repeated the number twice, laughing a little at how serious it sounded. By morning…
