Post by Jesús Martín González

🔴“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.” ― Pablo Neruda 🔴“When we suppress play, danger is often close at hand.” ― Sarah Lewis 🔴“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” ― Maya Angelou 𝗔𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: This newsletter, which I had sensed would be about the triad of imagination, creativity and innovation, I have had to reframe around the triad of my LinkedIn profile: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗽. One of the explorers who set my journey in motion, my father, passed away just shy of his 90th birthday. If only I could reach that age of 90! Wagensberg used to say that ‘𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲’. It was no longer just through memory, but physically, that I was able to return home and spend a few final days with him. Now my memory is truly steeped in nostalgia, and how aptly Wagensberg described it with another of his paradoxical aphorisms: ‘Nostalgia is the pleasure of sadness and the sorrow of joy.’ And those two feelings, pleasure (joy) and sadness (sorrow), but mostly the last one, have been tugging at my heartstrings throughout that last week of June, as I’ve been reminiscing about our shared and parallel lives as travellers and explorers on the map of life... I invite you to explore the curated content of this newsletter, which is full of maps and directions for us, the explorers of this cycle of life.  ...and of course, share the content of this newsletter, '𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗙𝗨𝗟 𝗦𝗬𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗜𝗘𝗦', with someone else.