Friday night, 13thMay2022

(forgot to take pics)

Interesting night. The pub was almost standing room only when I arrived. I ordered a pot (middie) of lightish beer, got my keys, took my gear to the room & had a shower, then put my feet up for 30 min. After that I wandered out to the bar again, ordered a "Chicken Parmi" & another drink, ans sat on my own in the dinning room. After dinner, on my request they made me a cup of tea, but wouldn't charge me for it. On my way back to my room I saw a piano, that was kind of in the hallway to the kitchen, and asked the serving lady passing by if I could have a play with it for 10 min? She said ok. It was pretty "in tune". By the time I popped back into the pub to say good night, & thanks, there was only 4 or 5 people left in the pub. (Eek, telling?) They asked if I wanted a beer, and i declined, then asked what I was doing. I told them it's a kind of a pilgrimage, like the Comino in Europe, & also "Going for a walk in "my" back yard, from bottom to top, to get a feel for my country, it's flora, fawna, geography, and people.", and recently, I added "Movember". I weakened and had another beer. Brad shouted it to me, and they let me in on a (dirt track) shortcut, Doctor's Road, that google didn't put in as a possible path for me, that would cut 3 or 4 km off my journey to Urana tomorrow, and give me less traffic to contend with. Even if i got stuck in the middle, the fellow said, he could come and get me. Ring Suzzie (who seemed to be the publican, who had originally taken my room order on the phone), she'll sort it out!

Brad said I really should get on Facebook with this walk. Then Suzzie asked for "one more" piano piece, offered another beer (which I had to refuse -gout, 3 middies might be about my limit for the night). I popped in to say good night, and she wanted "one more."

After that one, I snuck off to bed, & read up about Facebook events. Still not sure I could ride the bronco of the business orientation of Face-book, with it's use of  "likes" & sharing of one's self, and one's story, as a sales pitch, somehow it seems the opposite of the mentor teacher from the First Century that I'm trying to learn from.

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Good night.

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OLD TO NEW WORLD VIEW

Despite that science tells us "This world is

not what it seems on outside, to the feel,

with layers upon layers forming things",

I still believe that our ol' world is real.

Our scientific story tells us that

despite what we all see here (think we "know"),

there's layers of "community" which mat

together, and which interleave.. (quite so):《1》

Inside, within each body, making up

the living ones, are individu'l "cells",

or living creatures that can be corrupt-

ed, or combined to make a host where dwells

the multicelled "community" we see

that's planted right before us "on" (or "in")

our ground of being. Even you and me.

And these can be disrupted or can win!

The ways that these communities would seize

things 'round about to aid their tiny parts,

to work together: shelter, feed, and ease

their life, to bring a thriving from their starts,

are called in this Our world "to feed", & "clothe

and shelter", self or fam'ly, other lives.

The old words from Our world that covered both

are "love", & then there's "peace"- which meant "life thrives".

But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or gasses, animals or plants;

(and irrespective of "life" tagged to its

existence as an entity, per chance..)

is made of smaller atoms, molecules,

or other things that kind of are like "seas".

But smaller yet (these aren't just words of fools)

are forces "circling", balancing with ease.

Where either particles or waves "impart"

existence to those higher levels too.

But here we haven't even made a start

on bigger things, like Galaxies and U-

ni-verse, or other categ'ries rehearsed,

like Supernova, Nebulae, and Giants,

Dwarves, and other stars that shoot and burst,

to cook up compounds, elements and ions

from which all of the rest can start to "be".

Invisible dimensions in this way

we start to understand, and maybe "see"

within our "mind's eye" - as they used to say.

But still our story makes more sense, or less

of all dimensions we've encountered here,

since we were born - to order and to mess,

with this ol' world. - And this is where I cheer

myself as I move on, and others too.

The world we "started" in, that let us learn

about dimensions and these worlds that you

have just now been reminded of, don't spearn!

The story that's apparent: God made this

whole world with more dimensions than you'd poke

at with a stick, does not seem so remiss

and starts to look less like it was a joke!

"The best is yet to come", as AA found

in fact, through living in this re-al world.

And there's a higher power hanging round

to see if we would reach out and be curled

within the love of biggest Dad, or Mum,

and let the Great Creator's fam-il-y

look after us and grow us, and then some..

towards more of a nature that is free

to love back, as we have ourselves been loved.

And that's why most religions in this world

admire, and think good-life was surely gloved

within the life, that we have mostly hurled

our insults at, and blamed him for our faults

and misdemeanours, laziness, and such.

It's him I would commend to you. Us dolts,

we killed the model human God loved much -

the second Adarm (and would kill his Eve,

that God brings from him while he's "not around").

In jealousy and ignorance, we'd weave

a net to catch them yet, like beasts been found

and named. So if you ask me to I'll tell

the story of the glory of God "THERE",

who loves his kids, and wants them to do well,

take on creative love, and learn to share.

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《1》 physically enact this by interleaving the fingers from each hand with those of the other

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