It feels like it has been an age since I posted, but every time I think I have something to post, something more interesting comes along and changes my perspective again…

However, it hit me today that my fight has calmed. Some kind of balance has been struck, and it has brought joy!

In one quarter of my purposeful time, there are personal relationships that are benefiting from a renewed investment >

< In another I find a flourish of work that is refreshingly voluntary, entirely on my own terms and the perhaps truest reflection of my core values

The third remains the one real steady feature of the past couple of years or so and that is learning – both formal and less so, and gaining in variety as I go >

< As the shape of my future begins to get clearer it is gaining definition in freelance work in this fourth and final quarter. Commissions, I suppose, might rarely be expected to have a direct impact on the soul, however these are digging deep and starting to define my drive and thinking so much faster than I anticipated when I made this move.

And I am grateful …