Loss can come in many guises and recovery can take many forms. Time, patience and care help but it is our connectedness to others that supports the process the most.

Listening is an act of creation. We are reminded by watching a movie we did not want to see that when we move away from our egos and positions, when we open our hearts and hear, magic happens.

It is always useful to be prepared. Preparation can take hours, days, weeks or longer. In this particular case it has taken years of preparation to make a dream work. Who would have known.

Digging deeper into peoples’ wondrous lives leads us to the creative recrafting of a building and the inspiration behind building your own sports car. And a reminder to listen to your gut.

An erratic garage door, elastic dough, a birthday and the conclusion of an anxiety study, plus name changes and new platforms fills this week’s slightly extended newsletter.

A week without a car made us consider how nice it would be not to have to care for one. Amid gifts of a music performance and a bubble on wheels we watched as stress frothed over that left us asking: Is this how you want to be?

An auspicious week commemorating two important events that took place on the same date. Presenting our work in a space that inspired us to develop it, then driving a different way home for a new perspective.

The first month of the year down and a question around how things are going. If you have not been able to stick to those resolutions, don’t worry you are not alone. We look at the first step to making any change stick.