Grief is a weird intangible thing to me. Heartache due to love or what I had mistaken in the past for it anyways, that I know, it feels familiar. An acute pain, difficulties breathing, the sinking sensation that reduces your own world to that sole focus, the absence or...

Day 1 - Cork - Cobh - Carrigaline - 24km

On embarque sur le Pont-Aven de Brittany Ferries. Impressionnant et ravis d'être dessus sachant les péripéties pour y arriver. Je vous raconte pas. ... Allez si en bref. Controle technique matin, test de chargement, aller à Renn...

Premier jour de woofing. C’est parti.  Je suis en Bretagne, à la frontière avec la Normandie, pas loin du Mont Saint-Michel.

Catherine nous accueille avec le sourire. Tom me dépose et dois déjà repartir. Je pose mon sac là-haut. Et nous partons voir les ânes. Après quel...

Nearly to the day as I’m writing these words, I reach the end of my sabbatical year.

I should be going back to work soon, back to that grey endless stream of meaningless days. I shiver and catch my breath just thinking about it. That is how much my perspective on my pre...

What happens when you try to get out of the system… or closer to the door at least.

How excited was I when I decided « That’s it ! I’m changing life!” Take off this one and put on the brand new one! Let’s go!

Well well well… If it were that simple.

Actually it is, fo...

…And I have never felt better!

I did it. The red pill. All the way down the throat. I quit my job. 

No more sabbatical year with a safety net of coming back to the golden cage. I am free for real and for good. 

I have to tell you, a few months ago, that thought would have...

What happened since 3 months when I started my sabbatical, exhausted mentally and emotionally from work and the latest unfortunate events of my life?

There was a start, a slow one with a lot of sleeping, a lot of trying to calm myself down and forget the anguish of havi...

It seems possible to picture the evolution of an individual mindset on graphical curves, constantly ascending or descending up and down tendencies and beliefs.

Imagine, you are always going through an overall average tendency, of course at some point, punctual in time,...

Boy oh boy, it’s been a long way to today, 30 years and some to be precise. What a journey! And now that I have to reflect, now that I have time to look back and forward, I start to finally break free of this 30 years long trail of stuff, experiences, emotions, feeling...

5 weeks have gone by and what’s up? I have learned a lot of things yet so few that I know now that I didn’t know before. Is any of it useful? Some yes, some less, some life-changing, some self-evident. It is like becoming aware in a fraction of a second that we all do...