Ngurrju-mayi?
Everyone is doing it, commenting on the pandemic, so why not me?:
a) Our leaders are telling us what to do and have deployed a horde of uniformed armed enforcers. It would have been much nicer if they’d asked us instead. We’re too old to have fingers wagged at us.
b) They’re determined to get the economy back to what they define as ‘normal’.
I beg to differ: a headlong rush to the climate change cliff edge, less than a hundred people owning half the earth’s wealth and resources, whole countries being bombed into oblivion and much more, is not my dream of normal.
Ozzy Osbourne- Dreamer…wondering will Mother Earth survive…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCiwPEdEpg
c) Millions of people on earth are enjoying a respite from ever increasing pollution, surely they should factor this in when planning a post-corona world?
That’s enough on that.
I may not have got the following entirely right, but I’ll do my best:
The main songline or dreaming path to cross Yuendumu is a Yurampi-jukurrpa (honey ant dreaming)
What determines a child’s jukurrpa, is the place where, after conception the child quickens in the mother’s womb, indicating that a child spirit from that place has entered the child. Thus there are many people born in Alice Springs Hospital who came to this world as Yuendumu Yurampi children.
Kate Thompson is an author who lives in Ireland. Last year her book Provenance was published.
A lot of stuff written about Aboriginal Australia and its interaction with whitefellow society makes me cringe, so it is always an immense pleasure when a book like Kate’s comes along which is both enjoyable and credible.
Her fictional story includes the following in the acknowledgements:
“Thanks also to the residents, yapa and kardiya, of the Warlpiri community of Yuendumu, who were so generous with their time and knowledge.”
Kate did a lot of her research and writing of this book whilst “house-sitting” in Yuendumu. It is fair to say that the story quickened in Yuendumu and the book is therefore a Yuendumu Yurampi book.
Here you can check out the first 50 or so pages
https://www.book2look.com/book/yyYJhQmzuU
Enjoy,
Ngula-juku
Frank
One of my all time favourites- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young….Teach your Children…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkaKwXddT_I
and one of my latest favourites-
Heidy Ocampos- Galopera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z5RJ7XaLSE
Or same song and singer on Paraguayan TV-