Saying goodbye is such sweet sorrow

Let me take you back to a week or so ago. It was Monday and I was going to spend a day in Rotterdam with Jet and Joss to check out the new Omoda store. Here you can actually see how that all was. But there was another task waiting for me that I was a lot less excited about. I had to tell the editorial team that our dear Jet was leaving Amayzine. She had told me a little earlier, but I needed some time to process it. Today, the high word had to come out, but I thought it would be good to inform Josselin separately first. Joss might not have been an Amayzer from the very first minute like Jet, but certainly from the very first hour, so she deserved a personal explanation.

What happened, happened. Joss was in shock, but nonetheless we had the best day in Rotterdam (again, take a look if you feel like it). But at the end of the day, she stood next to my desk. “May, I need to talk to you.” Crying. Stomach ache. What turned out? Joss had just decided, after a weekend of thinking and crying, to spread her wings and leave the nest. But now the timing felt incredibly bad for her and she felt like she was letting me down enormously.

This is so incredibly Josselin. Responsible and caring. Of course, I cried along because Joss has been living in my heart for a long time. Eight years ago, she was our intern at La Vie en Rose, came to the baptism of my middle girl, went with me when I was temporarily editor-in-chief at the magazine Flair, and helped me out when I started at Marie Claire and needed people around me who understood what I meant without words.

All those years she has been just as critical of quality, always the first in the office and always, usually the only one, oh, ready well in advance with her topics. Joss has her affairs in order and is therefore a colleague among thousands. Joss and I, we go way back.

And it is precisely for that reason that I had to cry a lot less. Because I am so grateful for what she has done for me time and again, because I cherish our memories, and because I know (and hope) that our paths will cross again. Joss is going on a world trip with her beloved (we hope every time that she comes back engaged and pregnant) and then continues with her other exceptional talents: illustrating and designing books and making a lot of people happy with her punctuality and great sense of responsibility. Meanwhile, we are working together on a magazine that we are making from Amayzine, which will be in stores at the end of January.

So dear, lovely, crafty and knotty Joss, you may be saying goodbye to the editors' camp, but you are far from done with me.

Kiss on your bun and may you make many people, including myself, moha) happy with your wonderful self...

And P.S.: Actually, the timing was quite good (even though my heart had a hard time), because now we could hire full-time editors again. So Simone and Elke, and good old Kiki. And starting in December, we have a real chef, so no worries, with your daily dose of coziness, we are all set.