ABSTRACT

This chapter charts the author’s process from the first lockdown through to the ‘unlocking’ of the second lockdown. She describes how this journey has highlighted and brought the many paradoxes of existence into focus, broadening and opening her vision and outlook, making her question her taken-for-granted assumptions about herself and her life. At the heart of this chapter sits the existential issues of freedom, paradox, and the experience of the context acting as boundary situations.