Pre-Croatia

I will be uploading a blog post about our trip to Croatia very soon. I’m just editing relentlessly and making sure I’m not ranting too much, as I usually do.

It was a great trip, and also a reminder than I am not a shithead, not always. Sometimes you become so bogged down by the bullshit in life you feel like a negative person. And it is nice to be know that it isn’t the truth, in the overall sense.

I had a blast from the past and came across someone from at the start of my culinary career. I worked myself to a manager and when I was leaving that job I found them crying. When I asked why they told me it was sad I was leaving. So even though they were crying it was nice to know that I could have an impact on someone like that. Closing APEM was sort of like that, but it wasn’t so close to the skin and I was quite young.

One of the special things about being human is that a lot of us feel almost too much, and yet are almost never emotionally capable. The rarest genius is who can encapsulate this humanity into something beautiful. I say this because I feel that we are in an era of false genius.

May the air of Autumn still our hearts,

Alex