I was re-watching again an old show from the french television, listening to Christine Bravo, a french tv animator. She was telling this story about sharing with her friends one day a famous singer (I forgot his name) will be at her feet telling her how much he loves her and the friends to mock her, telling she is crazy its not possible it will never happen, and then years after during one of her tv show, it happenned.

A lof of time in my life I get certitudes, strange things, like I meet somebody which totally fit the archetype of someone I was like waiting for, I can't describe better than by telling ...such as I already know, met long time before or I was expecting to see again without knowing, like a part of me. Did it already happen to you?

For example one day, I was watching the television with my little brother and we were watching a curious real tv show, one of the first distributed in france "La ferme celebrité". A group of personalities has been invited in this farm for a while until the last stay depending on votes from the candidates and the audience.

In the group of candidates was standing a strange person, a man wearing female clothes and behaving such as a woman. Curiously that person seemed really familiar, like a part of me. I made the remark to my brother telling I know he looks weird but I am sure I will meet this person and we will be very good friends. My little brother looked at me like I am the very weird. However some years after, Vincent was in my facebook contact and one day in which he was coming by Brussels he invited me to meet.

The same year Vincent and Mickael organized my birthday in Paris, from then they are both part of my family.

It is also while I was in my twenties that I met and worked with the incredibly famous artist named Joan García Ripollés or more simply "Ripolles". I'll be glad to share in one of my next article how it happened in early 2009, while I was working in Belgium with the incredible librarian and galerist Jean Gavilan...

Ripolles Philosophy

The art of Ripollés is enriched by his passion for work. The artist is a simple, natural, naked, luminous man. His works are a reflection of his happiness to live. He calls himself a "farmer of freedom". Nature, woman and music are the dominant themes of his works. There is also bullfighting, a must-have Hispanic essence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoll%C3%A8s

There is also these many times in my life in which I made paryers for the bluefairy.... and I always by a way to meet her incarnation... (Yes I have been adopted and watched too much IA so I belive in the bluefairy :P )

I am a dreamer. However, there are things we can't explain except by faith.

So, just to say keep your dreams, your craft, keep your wishes beautiful, you'll make them real and shine.

It might take lifetime(s) to achieve these visions, these hand and heart made crafts for which I am edicated, it is probably still the very begining and it is time to have fun together meeting and learning on the way.

Before to finish this little letter to you, I'dlike to share again something that one of my good friend have been saying, ..and in resume, from experiences all around the world, there is 3 important things needed to be shared, the first thing is about opportunity. The second thing is about being sexy.
And the third thing is about living life.

First in resume,
keep in mind,
opportunities look a lot like work.
Number two.
Being sexy.

The sexiest thing in the entire world, is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap, I promise you.

It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less, so don’t buy it.

Be wise, be thoughtful, and be generous.

Number 3, Steve Jobs said when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way that it is, and that your life is to live your life inside the world and try not to get in too much trouble, and maybe get an education and get a job and make some money and have a family, but life can be a lot broader than that when you realize one simple thing, and that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who are no smarter than you, and you can build your own things, you can build your own life that other people can live in.

So, build a life. Don’t live one, build one. Find your opportunities, and always be sexy.

I love you guys.

I was born in Mauritius, and come from a really poor family, adopted, I grew up in Belgium and worked in top level IT and communication projects for the European Commission and International organizations. Anyone observing any segment of my path and opportunities is telling me I have a dream job or life. I met and worked with incredible talented and famous Artists with whom I also learned, be their mentor, coach and friend and I can tell you its it only the beginning.

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With a lot of love,
Jean

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Ripolles Philosophy