You left it behind with your clothes in the locker. Slip into the mirror-water and you entered a realm where everything moved away in slow motion. You moved whichever way you wanted, gracefully and without effort. You had spent the first nine months of your life floating and your body sank back into the medium with relish, as if it were its true home. At the third stroke' from 'Seams of Light' In 1998 I discovered to my shame and in a dramatic way that I was very unfit.
Some people call it an epiphany.
I was in Alice Springs for an Olympic fundraising dinner. It was my first time in the live heart of Australia. The beauty, the vastness the colours and the thick silence was overwhelming. I sensed that this place around Alice Springs and Uluru had a lesson for me. My instincts proved correct.