Hello Charlotte,

Your email made me laugh-so did your’ first one come to think of it. No-the whole point of a Zen Proverb (which, is what that ‘fork quote’ is) is that it works on a deeper level. The message transcends telling you which path to take, which is so easy for anyZone to do-and advises instead that you just take a path. In other words it’s never the destination you choose but the journey itself that counts. We can never know what lies ahead of any path in our lives, all we can do is determine to do what we do with gusto and give it our best.

No, I wont be giving out your name and address on a television show, or laughing about your personal dilemmas in pubs or dry cleaners. I won’t be pasting posters of your face around your neighbourhood either, unless you want me to. Also, Charlotte Lott if I do need to quote or publish details relating to your personal development, which is all it would be I would of course change your name to protect your identity. However, I am not envisaging a national scale interest in the small and personal research I am doing with you or the other four people who I will be counselling for a year.

Does that mean we are on then? It really is just going to be two people chatting like we are doing now. I won’t even be offering you the physical healing or acupuncture that I usually do as it’s not the area I’m looking into at the moment-and I’d rather keep it simple.

Speak to you soon when I can hear more about that fork of yours!

Doctor Bedford.