There is a room in your house you haven’t yet explored, one that opens only in your dreams. One night you may turn a corner on the stair and find a door that beckons into the unknown. Another time you may open a hall cupboard to find a playroom resounding with the happy chatter of your unborn children. The narrow corridor you have walked along for years widens to become a sunlit artist’s studio, with your latest masterpiece drying on the easel.
It’s a familiar dream to many, and those who interpret dreams suggest it hints at unexplored possibility in our lives, the opportunities we overlook. We regard the familiar as mundane something causes us to look again. In my case it was the lockdown during the pandemic of 2020-21 that caused me to see the familiar in a new light.
When I first set out on a regular solitary walk during the lockdown, I felt imprisoned - resentful of the
