I wake up to the rooster’s crow. Not because a rooster is crowing, but because my alarm is Jason Mraz’s “Back to the Earth” and that is how the song starts. No living roosters are crowing, because they are not up yet. Like good, Godly creatures they wait for the sun. I’ll hear them in […]

Time has really shifted gears. September has come and gone despite the daily pace being wonderfully slow. After the rush of the road trip that took us along 5,000km (yep, thinking metric now, we are so cultured) coastlines, over the Alps, through farms and urban centers, nothing sounded better than staying still for a few […]