Happy New Year 🎈

New Year always feels a bit like standing in a forest clearing at dawn. The old year is still clinging to the trees, the new one hasn’t quite arrived, and you’re somewhere in the middle holding a takeaway coffee and wondering how you’ve survived another round. This time, as I sat with that familiar mixture of fatigue, gratitude and quiet dread, I kept coming back to one small sign on my desk a quote from Lao Tzu about how “the softest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world.” Every time I look at it I think: that’s spiritual wisdom and also a surprisingly accurate description of a tired man in night shifts slowly paying off council tax. Read More