I
was born in Far North Queensland, but my Aboriginal “country”
lays on the border district between Queensland and New South
Wales, the land of the Yugambeh Mununjali, Northern Bundjalung
people. My Old People were moved away from their traditional
homelands to work as labourers on pastoral properties. I also
identify with my other ancestries: Scottish, Irish, English
and Sicilian. While I do feel a connection to those places and
people, I haven’t ever lived in those countries or felt
a responsibility, or persecution for them. Sometimes this is
difficult for the identity police to understand, and it seems
that an Aboriginal person of pale orientation should relinquish
their heritage in the name of authenticity and assimilation.
As Salmon Rusdie says “It is the struggle of memory against
forgetting”. Like most Aboriginal People I want freedom
and I work hard for it on many levels, and my chosen sexuality
or union of souls is a part of that.
"I
am what I yam"
What would be the opening chapter of the Kamasutra of plant
sex? A good pick would be a description of the numerous ways
in which plants arrange their sexual organs: from both sexes
in the same flower to sexes separated in different flowers or
individuals. One widespread sexual strategy that remains an
evolutionary enigma is the production of both male and bisexual
flowers in the same plant, which occurs in approximately 4000
species.
-from Science Daily.com
Housing
estates may come and go…
But the dreaming will always remain.
Have
you ever seen the night going? Very few people even become aware
of things that are happening every day. Have you ever seen the
evening coming? The midnight and its song? The sunrise and its
beauty? We are behaving almost like blind people. In such a
beautiful world we are living in small ponds of our own misery.
It is familiar, so even if somebody wants to pull you out, you
struggle. You don’t want to be pulled out of your misery,
of your suffering. Otherwise there is so much joy all around,
you have just to be aware of it and to become a participant,
not a spectator. Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation.
Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening
coming, participate in the stars and participate in clouds;
make participation your lifestyle and the whole existence becomes
such a joy, such an ecstasy. You could not have dreamed of a
better universe.
From Zen: The Miracle Ch 2
By Osho