Building to last

This week I am back in Cayman and, for the first time in a long time, am staying at The Reef Resort, this the view from my room at sunrise as I awake on my first morning here.

It is an odd feeling to be here, not simply Cayman, where I have spent most of my adult life, but to this resort that I have such a long association with, dating back well over twenty years to when it was only an idea. This has me ponder on:

What do we create in our work and do we truly build to last?

You can’t go home again

I moved to Cayman in 1989 and many years later moved to London in 2017. So, along with Scotland (where I was born and lived over half of my first 24 years), Cayman is always “home” to me.

Thomas Wolfe titled his famous novel “you can’t go home again” and it is indeed a mix of feelings each time I am back in Cayman.

Home is a feeling to me, not a place, and so quite ephemeral to describe. What I can say this morning as I write is that there is this range of feelings in me being here and they could have me feeling a little off-centre. However, being here at a place that was built to last gives me a feeling of solidity and foundation.

Building a resort to last

Some things are not ephemeral like how Thomas Wolfe wrote of “home”, some are solid and…