It's almost hard to believe that it's been less than a year since my last post. Yet, as with any span of time in between reflections and broadcasts, the events, lessons, revelations are too numerous to recollect. As always, it surprises me how much change we are able to endure.

My first year in Ankara has been an extraordinary experience, mostly for all the unexpected challenges and rewards. I have been lucky. Summer in the Philippines was equally memorable, with its own share of the fantastic and the all too real: reunions and separations, dreams and disappointments, life and death. All in all I feel as if I've jumped into cold water to find that life is both refreshing and uncomfortable, numbing and stimulating, distressing as well as cleansing. In many situations I felt myself afraid and in most of them I've come out surprised at my own capacity to cope, other people's ability to accommodate and the natural and social laws' dynamic way of keeping things just within reach of achievement and understanding.

I'm nearly falling asleep. Lastly, I've also opened up a channel here: restrictedspace.blogspot.com