I think it won the Australian fiction prize etc. But really it is about language, specifically the language of the Wiradjuri people, and colonisation. The author is an indigenous Australian and on the surface it is about a woman returning to Australia following the death of a relative. So the whole book is a kind of travel, time travel, historical, cultural, social comment but lively and imaginative (and an easy read). Some of these historic figures travel with her for a while, e.g. and often meets the historical figures from those places (as living people). As she passes through varius towns on her way to Greece she stops at historical sites etc. Laura Beatty, Lost Property – an English writer takes a year off to travel Europe by camper van. This week’s words of wisdom from my yoga teacher: Let this be the day you find the peace in letting go and the power in holding on. Like Robin, I also viewed numerous videos but prefer the purist approach to this song – I just want John.
I’ve paired it with Pacifica Tibetan Mountain Temple, the scent that says ‘peace’ to me. What the lyrics say to me is to put aside, not necessarily negate, our cultural and religious differences and embrace our common humanity that supersedes these differences. ‘Imagine’ my surprise when late last night I read yesterday’s SOTD post and saw her choice and the interesting commentary and videos that followed. I have no one favorite song but one that spoke to me as soon as I saw today’s cp, perhaps because of our troubled times and the impact that yoga and meditation has had on keeping me calm these days, is the same as Robin’s choice yesterday. John and Paul were my equal favorites – John when I was in an introspective, intellectual mood and Paul when I was my usual teenage self loving his cute boyishness. I grew up with the Beatles and loved them from the very beginning.
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