A tale of many cities

Dickens is a god. Not God but a god. If you wanted describe a year, any year for that matter, in about a hundred or so words you could you could hardly do better than this.

For Porco, this has been a year of change. A year for seeing possibilities. A new job, a new home and a new stage in life. 2007 was also a year in airplanes – of hitherto undiscovered continents, the thrill of adventure  and the unmissable relief at the prospect of returning home.

The inner life has also been stretched and taken further than it has been for a long time. New facets, old friends and re-discovered virtues exercised. Time also for some indulgences to be exorcised – for there is now less time. We are older and no wiser. We are less patient and more easily tired. We now have responsibilities where we had none. We were forty. Now add one.