Twenty-one years ago, I dreamed I was trying to get into a building by pushing through one of its solid brick walls. It was hard work that got me nowhere at all. All it did was exhaust me. I stood back, walked around the house, and discovered an open door. I realised that the door
The alchemists of old spent years working out how to transform base metal into pure gold. I, of the modern dream alchemist variety, spent four weeks working out how to transform a ripped, mouldy lampshade into something beautiful enough to stand in the corner of my friend’s room and shine a golden light. Now, this
If you want to understand the meaning of life, or see the mysteries of the universe revealed before your eyes, go to your local supermarket. Yesterday’s trip to our local Woolworths to buy some bread and fish – yes, how biblical – reminded me how stunningly the universe is revealed in the apparently mundane. “To
