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By the end of the second day of being constantly warm and feasting my eyes on the country my face ached.
Why?
I wondered too, then I realised it was from constantly smiling. I realised this about the same time I realised the truth of ‘jaw dropping’ – mine dropped open regularly as I cruised open roads with Slim Dusty blasting. Slim’s another story …
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This isn’t the place to talk about my Kimberley family, I will simply say that I have Jija (sisters), and I am Jaja (Maternal Gran) and Mum to some wonderful young people. I have become theirs and they mine. Aside from my birth family I have been adopted by Djaru people as a Nakamurra woman, and it is a homecoming for this Kartiya (non-aboriginal) woman.
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This trip was everything I didn’t dare dream it could be, and more. The country sings its own stories, red dirt and rocks, desert lakes, brumbies, boab, spinifex and people, special people.
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My Jija E and Jija D have been to stay here, on my country. We have painted, prayed and laughed.
I have created a little recently. Soon I will share.
Hopefully soon I will return to my desert … it calls …
Post Script: the photo's are a hint of a vast beauty that can not be captured with a camera just in a heart open to all that is around her.