Today I’m grateful for a coffee date with my wife, and my daughter not having anxiety just before going into school (and for getting back to some drawing!)

A day trip to Beachy head

We went down to beachy head near Eastbourne this weekend. I had never been as a kid but it was an incredible place to walk. I think the kids loved it too (except the dust that was blown into their eyes).

With my daughter ill and off school we spent some time painting minis together. Made some good progress on my squats.

For the last month, I’ve been going to the gym. It’s been incredible. I’m less stressed, feel stronger and healthier and have much more mental clarity and focus. I also feel like more things are possible now I’ve made this change. I wish I had restarted sooner.

Rytro castle in Poland near the Slovakian boarder.

Tsundoku: A Japanese word for the pile of books you mean to read.

I preached on 1 Kings 20-22 this weekend (yeah, that’s a large pericope if ever there was one!) So instead of reading all three chapters, I used sketchnotes to help summarise and get the main story points across (and also function as multilingual slides).

The Wieliczka mine big band back for their summer concerts. So much fun taking the kids along. It’s amazing the power of live music.

I’m really pleased with this illustration of selective attention from my recent newsletter.

So good to see the one and only @danalcantara in London last night. Especially as we grabbed a cheeky Nando’s.
It’s been five years since we first met in Warsaw and that was after connecting on micro blog before.
It is a very small world indeed.