Stranger things

[Nungali]

My 'friend' has returned to spend time here  ... flew down from New Guniea ... all that way .... 

 

to sit outside my window day and night ( sometimes at 4 am ! ) to constantly call  out in a rising panicked crescendo  for .... I dont know what ... and then fly all the way back home again .  

 

 

 

 

 

[Nungali]

A delightful young lady . 

 

I went down to the river beach yesterday . Nice and quiet and very beautiful ... especially after the festival throngs have gone .... had it all to myself ;   we finally got good rain, river is up and clear and fresh , new large pebble banks / beaches from the last flood  and a bright green shady rain forest surrounds .   But someone was there .   Oh !  its   'young Janis Joplin '   (as one of the elder indigenous referred to her at the festival  -  she borrowed a guitar down by the river  during the festival and belted out a song  ... to the stunned crowd ; a very strong and good voice for such a slight young woman ) .

 

She is my friend's young niece  that has moved here ' as a base' for a while .  She had  an art pad and was sketching a  human butterfly or an angel    as she was  sitting by the river bank under the shade of  cedar tree       ... ahhh to be young again . 

 

We left at the same time , her ;  ''Oh !  I forgot ! ''

 

''What did you forget ? '' 

 

'' I came down here to smoke a joint and I forgot to ''   

 

 

 

Me ; '' Well, there you go then . ''

 

'' What ? That I dont   even need a joint to be forgetful ?''

 

'' No . That  the place was so good and you are in such a good space that you didnt need it anyway . '' 

 

We went and had an indepth chat as she is very interested in magic, ritual, study,  yoga , astrology,  astronomy , religion  , cultivation, etc .  (its in the family tree .. Grandma was a CoMason and Auntie , my friend, is very into that stuff and has  being doing some sessions with her)  .    She drilled me with questions  and at the end ;  '' How can I find out about this stuff , how do you learn this stuff ? I want to do it .' How do I get where you are ?  ''

 

Me; '''  Its easy .  Just read , study,  practice,  incorporate, balance, and work with others  and  anything associated with it  ..... then keep doing that for 50 years  .''

 

  

 

God luv 'er .... she wanted to dedicate herself to it on the spot .  But, of course , she is running off with  a nice young fellow to the next festival in the state south of here ... so after that , but wait !  after that, there is one in the state north of here ... and after that  there is this big party coming up    .....   

 

Ahhhh .... the 'folly' of youth .   She is just like her Auntie ... and I was  , at that age . 

[Nungali]

.....    Hey Man .... we built this giant teepee thing  

 

 

 

[Taomeow]

I like learning new words on occasion, not ordinary words but stranger words.  I wrote about anemoia on the previous page, and today I accidentally came across the lyrics of Bad Boys (it used to be the opening song of a TV show popular in the '90s) and learned idren.  It's a Rastafarian term made out of "I" and "brethren" (or "sistren" -- it's gender neutral) that means "me and my spiritual brothers and sisters," "me and all my people."  Interestingly, it sounds like one of those Chinese words where "ren" -- meaning "person" -- at the end forms a term of belonging to a group (e.g. Meiguoren -- American, Zhongguoren -- Chinese, and so on.. )    

 

The daobumren are strange.   

[Nungali]

18 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

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The daobumren are strange.   

 

or ... the daobumren  are bajaaynga garruugu  garrugarrugu gujarri

 

 

[Nungali]

Spoiler

 - a strange and different mob 

 

[Sanity Check]

14 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

Cats are also telepathic

 

 

 

 

I may have seen evidence cats can tell what I'm thinking.

 

They communicate through body language, etc. 

 

And are very good at reading posture and gestures, etc.