Morning light across Scottish fields and Athens streets reflecting life's unexpected journey. I'm writing this from Athens, a city that was home for me for seven years. Last night there was the sound of neighbours talking, traffic moving through the streets and the city simply being a city. Life carrying on all around me. Then this morning I woke up and had one of those strange thoughts that seem to appear unexpectedly. How lucky I am now to wake up in Scotland and hear absol

Young passenger by airplane window wears large headphones, eyes down, sealed inside a private digital bubble. I spent another weekend travelling. Teaching in Athens. Four flights. Edinburgh to Dublin. Dublin to Athens. Then home via Lufthansa. Plenty of time to sit, watch, and notice how people behave when they think no one is looking. One thing stood out. Young people wearing large headphones. Not small earbuds. Big over-ear headphones. Old-fashioned in size. Modern in attit

Athens at dusk reflecting the mix of nostalgia, change, and purpose in teaching. Back in Greece for the first weekend of the Apparatus course, and Athens pulled something out of me I wasn’t expecting. It felt familiar, but it also reminded me how much life has shifted. We had a good time here, but it was a contained life. Quiet. Focused. Different from Scotland, where things feel wider and more connected. You only notice the contrast when you return. Travel itself is its own