Somertime (in the northern hemisphere) is always the time of year when things are reshuffled in my teaching and tutoring world. Holidays have that impact. I don't really take them as I am always moving: 20 years and going string! But. My regulars announce that they're going away for a break and will come back with tales of their holiday. Other students double down with me and we settle in for extra classes or an uptick in messaging each other with practice readings or selfies. In this time, I also adopt new administrational practices, update or redesign my website, take long hikes in the rain (usually). And I know this is what others do, too. Change brings new encounters. New voices or faces appear in these places, like italki and I am swept up on a wave of new possibilities, new cjallenges and new deciosions: I come around to wondering who will I learn nuggets of gold from this year. Who has a message for me?