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In 1958 when I was a bright eyed bushy tailed teenager the MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the ship that brought me to Australia called into the picturesque port of Aden.
Before you ask- how’s the book coming along? Well, before I started I didn’t realise how much happens in a lifetime. Also, I have always admired writers, now more than ever. At the beginning of this exercise a friend paraphrased the late Malcolm Fraser : “writing a book isn’t meant to be easy”. Indeed.
To bundle it all up into a readable story that readers read without their eyes glazing over is what I’m working on now. With a little help from my friends I expect to maybe succeed or at least give it a decent crack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3LQ-FReO7Q
From the latest draft of L’oevre:
Incidentally, ‘You can’t see the wood for the trees’ is a proverbial saying first found in John Heywood’s 1546 glossary: ‘A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue’
Mary Laughren’s linga is carved out of mulga wood and the grain of the wood faithfully follows its regular sinuous curves. A Warlpiri person looked into the mulga scrub and exclaimed:
“Look there is a snake!”. He was able to discern both the wood and the trees.
Thus while we are navel-gazing: Will I get a refund on that plane ticket I bought last month? How will the Stock Market nosediving affect my superannuation nest-egg. Will I run out of toilet paper?
In Yemen the cholera epidemic which started in October 2016 has claimed around four thousand lives from a suspected two million cases.
Aden is no longer picturesque.
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