August 10, 2003
Back to business (sort of)
So I'm sitting here with my beloved in the garden, while she is browsing through the holiday pics, and the background noise from the harbour nearby is adding to the thick warm atmosphere which has been resting as a blanket upon us for the last week of our holidays. This week, Belgium was going through some heat wave with temperatures above 30°C, which is quite hot when there's no sea nearby to cool down the nights.It's been a nice long holiday, 5 weeks with the kids and everybody together, going to France for two weeks, and some time to warm up and wind down before and afterwards. It brings a sense of detachment to daily business life, something which will be bound to change in the next few weeks. Hopefully, temperatures will go down now, since our offices have no airco and from the rumours overheard from Bruno and Marc who continued working throughout July and August, it has been a challenging act to keep brain cells working through this kind of heath.
We had many friends coming over to our holiday residence last week, also visited quite a few of them, or shared part of our holiday with them, and it was nice to grasp the fine life of good food, some bottles of wine and pleasant and restful conversations, sometimes well into the late hours of the day. Knowing ourselves, our working year challenge will be to preserve this sense of relaxation, making sure we find enough time with each other to remember what life is about: family, friends and making time to fully enjoy the company of your beloved ones. We'll remember this year's holiday as the time when our little daughter started walking, and realizing ourselves that sometimes, we should be easier on ourselves, and not be too serious about who we are, what we do and where this all might eventually lead us. Words for this year: serendipity and capriciousness. Thanks to everyone who made our holidays worth the while.