Roz’s space My favourite Thinking Space is this view from the back of my horse Bazillion, looking west from the top of a hill near Palo Alto in California’s Bay area. Getting there by horse is an important element. Away from traffic, crowds and technology, it’s a chance to slow down to the pace nature intended – horses only operate in that dimension – and I have time to think. Life can be frenetic and tangled. Out in the hills on a horse, the knots loosen and the threads separate. I’m English, and grew up partly in Ghana, Canada, and Sabah, before graduating from Leeds University and becoming a journalist. Now I’m in marketing in Silicon Valley. If I didn’t have to earn a living, I’d be seriously writing plays…one day!
Bleaker countryside and oceans have always been my favourite ‘Thinking Spaces’: open hills, the downs in Wiltshire, deserts, a ship’s wake uncoiling endlessly at sea. The Pacific Ocean starts on the other side of the hills here: the Thinking Space is unlimited and my mind is free to roam, so that when I ride back to be fenced in again by the demands of daily life, I’m ready.