Plan to wake @6:30am, and cuppa and breaky, leave at 7:30am with Keith, before his morning push-bike ride.
John, who lives just outside Belatta has offered to pick me up at 5pm and take me to his place foor the night, and maybe Sunday too. I said i'll join in on what ever he does on Sunday. He usually goes to New Life church in Narrabri, where I slept last night. Great.
Woke with gout in my left forefinger. Eek. God, help! Well, I have brought my colgout tablets, and though I've been skipping on my allopurinol (normal gout prevention) tablets, scared of running out, I took one last night. I'll do what I can, then, we'll see.
It dawned on me that if I was coming back on Sunday with John from Ballata then maybe O could take some spear socks and undies and save towing the trolley today, and collect it on the return trip on Sunday. So we left the trolley in Narrabri, to be collected tomorrow.
Out on the road about 8am.
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Thanks for the lift back to where you picked me up last night Keith.
Hoping that without the trolley today, I can make it to the half-way point between Narrabri and Moree. I think that will be several km past Bellata. But I'd have to work out how to get back to John's place, which is the other (Narrabri) side of Belatta.
Just thinking.. With this hike in fuel prices, it's more costly for everyone on this road. On all roads. Or even to mow the lawn, or run a generator. Heard this morning about grey nomads being stranded, or having to drive at 80 or 90 km/hr to save fuel.
Around 9:30am I try to check out the Edgeroy fuelstop toilets.. no go. But Imeet Dale Oliver who drives this truck down here. He offered me a couple of sandwiches. Love to get to know him more. But he has some work to do, & I have some walk to do.
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He comes from Cloncurry up in Qld, where a good mate of mine now lives, so I was hoping to pay Cloncurry a visit, on the way up, or down. Said we might see each other up there in 2 or 3 months time, if we happen to both be in town then.
These mountains are amazing.
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The photos don't do them justice. You'll have to come and see them. They say that from up therevthe view is spectacular across the plains, especially at night, when towns, and farms, and mines have their lights on.
Cars, trucks, caravans,utes, tip trucks, tankers pasd all day. This is a lovely patch of road, with a wide flat shoulder. Fantastic for pulling a trolley on, or for NOT pulling a trolley on.
With many graders, rollers, excavators working on the fast train line to the left of the road.
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At about the 10km mark, I stop for a foot break, bandaid a toe, eat some trail mix, take a call from a good mate and Uncle to me, Paul Roe who has been connecting me with friends along the way.
Back up on on, at 10:50am. See how this stint goes?
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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