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.

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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