Friday 5Aug2022CE, from Garah a bit further, in the rain..

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Rain over night. Slept in. Had a phone call from a mate back in Wellington. Got some breaky from the general store, and onto the road by ~9:30am.

It's completely overcast. Rain, on & off. 

I'm trying again the gift of some waterproof boots from my son-in-law. I've got rain pants on, some plastic bags as gaiters, to shunt the water to the outside of the boots. I might need to swap with my other walking shoes after about 2hrs, or just put my thumb out, and get a lift back to the pub.

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We'll see.

At the point where I had about 60km to go to Mungindi (i.e. when I had travelled about 19km), 

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Bill, in a little Mazda camper van pulled up to see how I was going, without me so much as putting my thumb out. I knew that at this point, since my feet were caning me, I either had to change shoes (& it was still spitting, so I couldn't see how to do this easily), or get a lift back back to Garah. I asked Bill if i could catch a lift back to Garah, he was cool with that, and started clearing the front passenger seat of goods and chattel for me to have somewhere to sit. I threw my day pack on the seat, too a pic, and hopped in.

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I was very grateful & at Garah I shouted him a hamburger 

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and coffee and soft-drink. Bill used to work in Orange at the mines, but was presently minding a property at Jundah, out past Longreach, and was heading to his boss' place at Conargo,  in his van, camping when he needed to on the side of the road, and showering at truck stops. We talked over some lunch, and he said, let's keep in touch. I gave him my blog address. Hope we can keep in touch somehow. We'll see if either of us can give the other a call sometime. And I'll try to put something up on my blog each day.

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Back to the pub, paid for tonight, Sat, & Sunday, and got dry and put my feet up, in the dry, … hopefully for an hour or two. Dinner tonight and Sat at the pub. But the pub kitchen isn't open Sunday night, I'll have to cook something up myself on Sunday 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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