The heat, champaign and barking cats.

American modernist poet H.D. feels the wind that has started shaping my life… Listen to H.D.’s invocation to the wind…

O wind, rend open the heat,
Cut apart the heat,
Rend it to tatters.

Fruit cannot drop
Through this thick air --
Fruit cannot fall into heat
That presses up and blunts
The points of pears
And rounds the grapes.

Cut the heat --
Plough through it,
Turning it on either side
Of your path.

And bien sur, the wind has really transformed the landscape… Landscape=my life.
The heat=the worries are gone.
It’s been exactly (just looking at the watch), 93 hours since I have been awarded my Master’s Degree at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria. The wind…

It feels strange. As if all these years of hard work never happened and although I was saying I'm going to take some time off, relax, contemplate, inhale the new scents of life the new wind will bring ... I didn't find the time nor the desire to do so.

All that was on my mind was my RAB. Radio Advertising Bureau for Slovenia, that's been a project in the process of creation for the past two years. Setting up RAB has been my dream since I came back from London, having spent 3 months there as an associative research student at the University of East London and meeting Andrew from RAB, UK.

In Slovenian RAB is called ROB because of the difference between advertising=oglasevanje ;)

So, I always joke that with Rob I have not only gained a new business partner but also a very close friend ;) (luckily husband found the 'guy' with me ;)))

So, here we are. ROB and I. We forgot all about the new title we've earned with my master's thesis on Semiotics of radio advertising, because now we realized that a degree can not bring new passions to the old passions that have been there for the past 5 years - passion I feel for radio advertising - BUT it did bring one thing. It brought peace of mind.

For about 17 hours ;)) After my family, friends and I emptied the first few bottles of champaign.

Then it was over. Done. Finito. Konec.
Rob and I were gone. With our ears we heard the people celebrating but our minds drifted away into our radio world and started dancing in the rainbow of all our plans...

In the past weeks we have been neglecting the people and the places we both love and admire and finally it was time again to be seduced by all the Wizard partners, especially Michele Miller's Wonderbranding for women, Dave Young's Branding blog, Chuck McKay's Fishing for Customers blog, JB's radiomagazine, RAB UK, RAB USA and so many more that have become our virtual teachers and friends.

Rob and I will probably not be around for another two months because we have so many stories to read through, so don't hold it agains us ;)

And with Michele's recommendation for another new, amazing book by Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg (along with the incomparable Lisa Davis) called Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?, uuuu...it will be a hot reading summer I'd say! Bravissimo!!!!

Carpe RAdiem!