Recently I’ve been practicing meditation. One of the exercises involves being ‘present’ for a few minutes in every day activities. For example, on the daily walk from the train station to work, I was coached to simply ‘look up’ – behaving like a tourist in your own town.

It is actually quite a breathtaking exercise, seeing things you have never seen before, due to preoccupations of work, or the head-down rush to get to the train. Being taken with genuine wonder just by looking… up…