Summary
Hill People Gear and its legendary comfort.Irony of the story #2: I will unfortunately never have the definitive answer on what happened, since this defective probe (totally deactivated now) is still in my body, it has not been extracted for a visual examination. So I don't know if my theory is right...
I leave this Trois-Rivières hospital a little stunned, a deactivated catheter, my friends supporting me like never before in the rented red Wrangler. I am relieved, I will no longer suffer electric shocks .
an estate that produces cider , a stone's throw from a beach.
So we decide to take a long walk on a beach bathed in sunshine, with a perfect temperature.
This long walk and this vast expanse plunged me into my thoughts, into my relationship with clothing, while I was wearing my Thrudark pants and my Vollebak shirt.
I always remained convinced that clothing and BonneGueule have a role to play in this pleasure of the present moment, in these moments that count. Whether on a beach with the sun setting or for dinner on a rooftop.
My desire to spread this relationship to clothing to as many people as possible is still there. My desire to create clothes for more outdoor moments has clearly gone up a notch after this weekend.
The kind of moments that encourage introspection…
Get back on your feet
But guess who was waiting for me (once again) at home when I returned from the weekend…
And a week before my operation to change my pacemaker and my probe, the evening anxiety was particularly wild .
Far too much for me to do anything to contain them, so I decided to do what they expected of me: nothing at all. Lay there and wait for them to calm down, literally.
My Evening Anxieties were even present with me when I packed my gear the day before my operation, you can even see it again Bruno Marion who hosted me the days that followed, in his apartment in Etienne Marcel, delighting myself with its organic and vegetarian dishes. Bruno, if you are reading these lines, a huge thank you again!
I was a little "disturbed" in the nights following this operation, and I would like to pay a little tribute to the book " Humains " by Romain Dian, which took me from the Amazonian forests to India, with a beautiful interior journey ( Bon Mate that I didn't take the time to read this year. It's also at that moment that I took the time to dig into the subject of Build in Public , but I I'll talk about it later.
In the morning, I went to the gym for light movements, at lunchtime I cooked with Valentin and Maria, and in the afternoon I read, wrote and processed some emails. I wrote a lot about the outdoors, because I was still in this vein coming back from Houat, and I simply needed to write and create content on a subject that I liked, without expectations, and without pressure. Just for fun .
Late tea tastings and discussions at the end of the night with Valentin and Maria for a hippie August…
Of all this mass of research and writing, nothing has been published yet, but I hope to one day!
Then Valentin and Maria continued their vacation and left Paris in mid-August. Without them, I feared that the Evening Anxieties would come back to find me, but I believe the Universe had decided otherwise. By some miracle, I was invited to an event every evening: a dinner with friends, an evening, a walk, an excursion outside Paris, until the beginning of September.
I even spent a weekend in Lacanau with Alexandre Dana and his father, a great psychoanalyst. It was on a local beach that Alexandre convinced me to give my all to write my 2022 review article. If you are reading these lines, it is largely thanks to him. It was also on this beach that I told Alexandre that I wanted my fall/winter 2022 to be defined by these two words: “experiences and encounters”, because I wanted to have fresh air in my life and put behind me all the pressure I had had.
Sorry, this is the only photo I have from my weekend in Lacanau…
I continued to go to the gym almost every day, the emotional and physical healing took its course, I continued to dry out, I lost 8kg in two months, I felt better in my body and Writing continued to do me good .
The drafts I wrote during this “slow down” month of August.
So much for this long summer break . A summer that was tough, so intense and beautiful at the same time, and which continues to make things emerge for me, especially as I write these lines.
And then came the start of the school year, and if my month of August had been bathed in a “hippie/writing” atmosphere, I had a feeling that the month of September was going to be of a different caliber and I was not going to be disappointed .
An ascent of the Canigou peak later (which I hope to do again one day with BonneGueule clothing!), it was definitely time to head back to the office and face my responsibilities .
Find the first part of this review article right here , the third part here , and the fourth here .
