I last wrote of my trip to confirm if I should embark on a new adventure, a move to the sea with a friend who needs support. I was left in no doubt.

It was more of a rebirth, one might say. I shed unconscious “years” from mind and body. My “cage” had been so warm, and secure, imprisoning me in comfort, but as I reached the sea and the sky beckoned, I knew. I felt it. The treasures I would behind, security, comfort, even loved ones, could not compare with the reckless freedom of the sky. Released from a cage I had not perceived, I spread my wings to the wind and remembered I could “fly”.

There was no longer doubt about this new venture. While my cage keeps me safe from the many dangers without, it also imprisons me. Safeguards had become bars and, like a wild beast…