But, of course bush living was bush. You totally took most of your things from the land you were on. We just lived on the land as people of the land. To us, it was a natural way of being-- being part of all that there is was just the way it was. You didn’t see anything any different from you. It was just a way of life that was inclusive of all that there is through life. Life is the binding and the connecting way. The oneness is: if you’re alive, you connect to everything else that is alive. But that oneness included everything that was around us, and you’re raised with that teaching from a child upwards, you know, the relationship, and our relationship system for our people here—see, my people see land ownership as being totally different to the English way of “ownership,” because ours used to be really “the land owns us, and it still is that to us. You know, the land grows all of us up, and it really does. You know, no human is older than the land itself, it just isn’t, and no living marsupial is as old as the land itself. Everything that’s been and gone with the life in the flesh has died, but the land is still here.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:16:40 +0000
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