Saturday, April 09, 2005
Its my birthday, too much is happening and there’s an eclipse to top it all off…but i haCategories: History
I remember my first job out of High School, I got a job up North as a \Zgoverness\Z (I think \Zdog\Zs body\Z would have been a better job description\Z my first in a long series of very poor career choices) on a cattle station. We lived only 200m back from the Silver City Highway, 30mins away from Milparinka (a pub \Z owned by German immigrants who had sold up everything in Frankfurt for an outback lifestyle - that constituted a town), a position of relative social-hub-ness. We got mail twice a week, and people often stopped by on their way to and from Broken Hill, 4 hours of 4-wheel driving away. Tho I had spent some pre-teen years in Booleroo Centre (no jokes please), a town of just 1000 people, Broken Hill amazed me with its brownness, dustiness, desertedness, and general air of imminent collapse. As we drove down the main street I said my thoughts out loud: \ZIf I grew up here, the first thing I would do is get out.\Z The Missus barked a bit and replied \ZAnd yet the first thing you did was come here.\Z Ooops, she’s right.
We always want to be somewhere we arent. Standing still is quite a trick.
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Comments
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T said on 05/04/09 at 05:38 PM.....
Happy birthday babe!!
Standing still is over-rated - who wants to stand still and let banacles grow under your feet? (especially as we are going dancing tonight!!)
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Kanako said on 05/04/09 at 11:50 PM.....
Happy birthday,Jo!!!
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amanda said on 05/04/10 at 12:14 PM.....
for me, it’s not so much standing still, as it is being able to appreciate where you are standing at that very moment of your life. it’s also a balance thing. being able to stand figuratively between two polar points in your life, and really see each of them for what they are. not pine for one or the other, just see, understand and accept.
then as tracey suggests, to just keep on dancin’!i hope that you are having a splendid birthday weekend jo.
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j-ster said on 05/04/10 at 11:13 PM.....
Ok, standing still is wrong, and i agree with you too Tracey, maybe i should have said “willing being where you are…” instead.
