2022-05-12

Thursday after noon.




I showered, snoozed briefly,  then walked to Dave and Muriel's place for a cuppa. Lovely time heard much of their story and a song or two from Dave's CD's (he has about 6) - got them onto my phone via usb. Very rich time. Thank you Dave & Muriel.


Forgot to take a photo… missed a photo of Dave altogether.


A phonecall with a mate, then… 


at 5pm sharp, Viv picked me up and showed me round their retirement village. Then we had a lovely meal of ssusages and mashed spud and vegies, which Marg had prepared. He  told me the story of a group in Berrigan, led by a businessman Bernard Curtain who with a commitee of determined locals brought a retirement village into being for aged people from this local area, that is quite distinctive.  26 houses (24 2-bedroom houses & 2 3-bedroom houses) tidy brick houses built by the community for the community. Costing $280,000(?) each with a further total of $40,000 payable at $4,000.00 yearly, over 10 yrs for rates and water and maintenance. Owned by a local Aged Care association, with matching funding from both State & Federal Governments. He & his wife Marg live in one of them, and only 3 remain vacant. Not built on the corporate money-making model, but on a model centered on  care for local aged who are seen as an integral part of the local community.

We talked about many things, including the corporate and franchise model infecting farming, food production, schooling, church (in the form of denominations). And many other things… also very rich time. Thanks, Viv and Marg.

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We made plans for Viv to pick me up at 8am (with my trolley)  then to deposit me at the spot he picked me up from today. I packed and hit the sack.






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.




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

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