Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.

One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.