Thank you for having taken some time to stop by. So, what is this?
You may find online crumbs of my life Before. 25 years as a tech and retail analyst, working with legendary companies. Extraordinary outposts to see reality morphing: Paris, Woking, Gurgaon, Lagos, Nairobi, Shanghai, Singapore,…
And then, in 2024, I literally started to lift the lid on my own heritage: century old letters, movies, photos, artefacts untouched in decades lying in a frozen instant when my grandparents came back from Congo to settle in a small village hiding on top of a hill, in the South of France, just around the next corner of a twisty road.
Take these scattered shards, mix some research, memories and not a little reverie, and conjure up a lost world: the world my mother, my grandparents never truly left. A world they brought back in conversations, memories, mementoes and rituals. A reality, a regret, an aspiration and a dream worth sharing.
Need more to round up this image, beyond a thumbnail photo and the texts to read? No prize for guessing I am an X-er, one of those OG nerds that only recently became respectable. Oh, and any music loud and fast enough to shatter limestone …
Of course, these posts, articles, share my own light-beam, with their own blind spots, their own shadows. I know that. But I believe that it is only by sharing all light beams that we can make the Shadow recede.
Pascal Bollon
