Honouring My Work

It was with a large dose of curiosity, and a small pinch of trepidation, that I agreed to my friend and colleague Jeremy Keeley’s suggestion that we ‘honour my work’ in a recorded Zoom conversation. Below is the result of this, or you can click here. It was a strange experience, a bit self-indulgent, but I thought I’d share it because it covers a lot of the thinking behind Still Waters.

Jeremy is the consummate gentleman and so the experience was like a warm bath. I am not a fan of the word ‘honour’ and have written about that elsewhere, but I didn’t tell Jeremy that as this is a thing he has decided to do as a service for a number of people in our field of work. However’ leaving that aside he set the whole thing up seamlessly and then was just a really comforting interviewer - like Michael Parkinson, but without any tricky questions.

The end result is about thirty minutes of me talking, which I accept entirely may not be your idea of time well spent. Nonetheless I offer it here for a couple of reasons. Firstly on a practical basis, it’s like a video CV/biography and so if you are considering working with me it’s one way of finding out what you might be letting yourself in for. Secondly, I actually think it is a good idea occasionally to simply stop and reflect on where you’ve been, where you are and where you are going. And so I would encourage you to find a way to honour your own story. And thirdly, I am posting this to honour Jeremy, who is the very epitome of a highly skilled, thoroughly decent human being.