The weather forecast is an educated guess about the glorious mixture of time and nature : what will blow round the world and when. We have a choice to deny it, adapt to it, or learn from it.

Charles Handy, who died just before Christmas, gifted us a wonderful legacy of wisdom, experience and forward thinking. His prediction (and exemplar) of Portfolio Life inspired me, and countless others, to give it a try. I was lucky enough to meet him and feel that inspiration directly.

At over 75 you don’t expect many excitements that you haven’t had before. May 10 2024 proved to be one of the exceptions.

The search for perfection is fatally flawed. People, politics and the future can’t be controlled and predicted, as we might wish. It’s not a perfect world, look for the light from the cracks.