Come away, O human child!

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you

can understand. 

William Butler Yeats

wise lobster

I wonder what it is you might think about our different worlds. He looked at me kinda sideways and said, "Human beings are the only creatures on Earth who claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. Does the world belong to no one but you?" And when he said it, I was taken aback. Not because of who was doing the talking. Because I finally understood the connection between children scavenging for food, and shiny brass plates on the front doors of banks.

O H C baby

shine bright

love letters

"Tell me everything; when you'll be out again, where you'll be at Christmas and that you think of me and love me, I don't want you for a day (though I'd sell my toes to see you now my dear,  only for a minute, to kiss you once and make a funny face at you): a day is the length of a gnat's life: I want you for the lifetime of a big, mad animal, like an elephant."

 
"I lost you in the morning. I don't want to write words, words, words to you; I must see you and hear you; it's hell writing to you now . . . you are really my flesh and blood Caitlin whom I love more than anyone has loved anyone else. It's nonsense me living without you, you without me: the world is very unbalanced unless in the very centre of it we stand together all the time in a hairy, golden, more-or-less unintelligible haze of daftness."

fernweh

You are the universe

straya

“Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities, or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. It is stable and peaceful and good. It doesn't need watching, and so we don't.”

 "It struck me in a moment's idle thinking that this forest was quite an apt metaphor for Australia. It was to the arboreal world what Charles Kingsford Smith was to aviation or the Aborigines were to prehistory - unaccountably overlooked.
It seemed amazing to me, in any case, that there could exist in this one confined area some of the rarest and mightiest broad-leafed trees on earth, forming a forest of consummate and singular beauty, and hardly anyone outside Australia has even heard of them. But that is the thing about Australia, of course - that it is packed with unappreciated wonders."

Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country

Yakka Mardie

My two months at Yakka Mardie Feed Lot, Bruce Rock, WA, may aswell have been a lifetime. I learned/experienced/explored so much!  Myself, the world, the bush, farming, history, Australia...

If you get an opportunity to experience real life in the outback, do it! Before you get caught up in life's fast lane. Learn and grow.. Live and love..

have hope

Poorly educated extremists misinterpret the guidelines of their religion and cause confliction. In such a complex world we should know better than to automatically repel against an entire population because of the awful people who disrupt the peace, those people who make ill decisions for an entire group based on their own dissatisfaction. I feel for those people too, the bad eggs, for they too entered this world vulnerable and innocent.

We must all pull together, react only towards the individuals who cause disruption, not to the race/religion/nation they are poorly representing. React with compassion, understanding and hope.

Communicate, understand, educate and love all together.

☽ ⤩ △

fascinated by human behaviour and what's underneath the surface, by the world's inside people

ride'um

"It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

Mick Jagger

A sunburnt country

"It brought me a new understanding of how, unless you're connected with the land, you're not really connected with yourself or the nation. And Australians, I think, are slowly beginning to realise that the land owns us, we don't own the land. It's taken climate change to achieve that. And you get this sense of forces which are outside your control."

"But it was in Australia that I gained my first impressions of the beauty of the world, and it was the Bush that taught me. "

Bill Bryson

Amen!

i love love

 

 The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively."

Bob Marley

shanti shanti

I never saw a place so full of life...

Diwali in Jaipur...

India feeds my soul

one

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say

I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say

I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will live as one

Good advice

 

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it”

Patti Smith

will I ever get there? does it really matter?

Everyday, back and forth, what's it for?

I don't know, I'll get out, won't have to check my watch

I don't have the verve to belong to this dead side

Why I ever tried, I don't know

Oh, dare I face the real world

Gonjasufi

You're the devil
You're the one that divides this place
This place so divided
If united we stand
then we ain't gonna to fall
Children walk on both hands
While man still learnin' to crawl
Children fucking blowin' up malls
Grown men fucking blow-up dolls

world of #PAIN

If you can't keep up with the basics, how can you keep up with the BASE?!

On the road

My Rainbow Beach read...

"...And I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop...”

Jack Kerouac