8:36am My good woman drops me where she picked me up yesterday, which was on the rhs of this road as seen in this picture (looking back),
at the end of what you can see of the bitumen as the road turns through a slight cutting.
I'll text my mate an ETA for coffee at Wongarbon, then get on with some time to look, listen, think, respond.
I started writing a prayer for some friends who are determined to be a goodness, or a joyful event in the lives of others who were also trying to do that.
Then had a few phone calls to attend to etc.
Then started a reflection on living with skill as a human (open to lore and the ethical dimension of life).
Google maps doesn't always get it right. It had me accessing their house through the lane at the back. Lucking they did have a disused gate that could be unwired to let me in. All the Woodburn family who were home welcomed me in and opened up their lives as well as their home (even the dogs Nebo & Astro). And their larder too. What a lovely time.
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I arrived just after 10:35am, and left just over 2 hours later with their prayers of blessing. More heartened.
As I was leaving, my mate told me of the track that runs parallel to the highway maybe half way to Dubbo. How good is that. So, missing most of the traffic, that's the one I'm taking, as I tap these words out.
2pm.. walk on..
There are tracks and farm access roads almost all the way to Dubbo on one side of the railway line or the other. Once though, a quagmire that required some special care to circumvent.
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A great walk, through bush, much of it while on the phone to friends from near and far (one friend said to me, after we'd talked for what seemed to be at least 10 min, "We've been talking for over an hour and 20min.") I arrived at the first McDonalds on the highway on the outskirts of Dubbo by 5pm, where my good woman picked me up. With coffee in hand we drove back to Orange for the night. A day off tomorrow, then a driving trip to see parents in Qld, then return to Dubbo and to walking after that..
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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