Ah! Acorn Hats as a personal philosophy began when approaching 40, I lay on the banks of Warwick University, having handed in the last assignment of a ten year mature students’ degree in English and Cultural Studies. I had been working at Coventry and Warwickshire Mind encouraging those with mental health issues, to improve their lives, also for the last ten years. An acorn fell on my head. I felt this to have great significance, and began reflecting why... The acorn hat could be symbolic of growth, growth is the business of therapy - my next role was as an Occupational Therapy Student! Ah ! utterance, might reflect that moment of joy when we emerge as our more complex selves following crisis, a meaningful challenge, or when form emerges from the necessary space of uncertainty, of questioning, as an affirmation of human nature, as pure energy, because of our need to make meaning, in order to survive there...