Tracking in the Australian bush was taught to me by my uncle Tiny. I was told to look for something that wasn't there listen for something that made no sound.And to smell for something with no odour. These words still ring loudly in my ears.Then I reads in one of Michael Neils emails this from china.
As it says in the Tao Te Ching:
Look and it can't be seen
Listen and it can't be heard
Reach and it can't be grasped.
Nothings new!

The story of art

Drawn and painted on canvas done
Not right for my look my little one
Burn and glow the doing was fun
Light and burn ashes undone
For to seek perfection life can be one

Bright colours and hues from fiery rains
To the desert at dusk on the mighty plains
Opals colours on birds and birds hues on rock
Take the sand and paint the stock

Camp cooking done with the smells of sound
glowing fire and the blackness abound
Little are big and minute is grand
on the flowing sand of a river in flood

gender insignificant the fleeing sun
Talk is work and the fleeting nun
big is small and the smoking run
let it be as the work was done

Discust

Today I say the most disgusting thing since working at the meat works. A amature fisherman caught a white sand Flathead and had the fish in a dry bucket. He went to the tables where they clean the fish before they take them home. The fish was thrown onto the table where it tried to swim. Then the fellow proceeded to scale the fish alive. I had to walk away before I vomited. Do these people not understand that this sort of cruelty is avoidable and unnecessary. If I go to the boat ramp again I will video tape any cruelty and post on utube for all to see showing the culprits face.

Making an insurance claim

I would strongly advise anyone making an insurance claim to get in contact with there solicitor as one word out of place will void the policy. Insurance policies have a section dealing with legal fees and you can also make this part of the claim and you will be covered. So use the policy as it is worded. The higher the claim the tougher it gets. Your own words can be and will be used against you. That is why they record all dealings with the public, You know that little voice before you get connected "Your call may be monitored and recorded for training purposes". Then you are put threw to a person. Sound familiar...

belonging

Belonging

Good to stay where you belong.
Having been up rooted all my life to have a place to call home would be something, It takes years to develop a circle of friends. I know there is some countries that are in termoil and are under persecution and I must admit that this would be a great strain on lifes activities. I personally would like to live in Canada Russia or China. I don't know why but these are the countries that appeal to me. These countries to me seem to be the freest places to be able to do as one likes.But in reality I may have made bad choises. What really makes ones life is the friends that you have and your communities that you have around you.
I know from experiences that people who have come to Australia have had it tough and the ones I have meet and got to know have been a blessing to have known.

The art of work

The product of work can be a magical scene.

Evaluating insurance

Things change over time and economics of insurance change as well. Costs to the consumer of these products are going up with no perceived benefits. Costs of cars and prebuilt kit housing has come down to a point where a total rebuild is in the reaches of of say a three year pay back period. that is the wage of say 80 thousand dollars a year and the all be it small house is in the vicinity of 80 thousand dollars for a kit home placed on your property. The pay back period wold be about four years using one quarter of your income.
Bear in mind that you may not be covered for the calamity that strikes you anyway. Then if you are lucky enough to have this calamity strike and the government declares a national disaster you may be covered by a government hand out.
So how much risk are insurance companies taking? It seams not much as in my case paying for insurance for five decades and making a small claim and then not going threw with the claim because of increased policy costs and fixing the broken window myself and the other damage vandals caused whilst I was not there.
Then all the interest I could have gotten from the premiums plus the premiums would have built several houses.
Then there is the importation of kit houses from china all flat packed and prewired and erected in the same time as it takes to erect a garden shed for the cost of $10.000 for a four bedroom house.
You can get relocatable houses on EBay for similar prices. Then there is the way we use houses where the trend is smaller is better if you are to believe the small house movement.
The younger generation are giving up on home ownership because of costs and we will see a move towards traveling houses and the like. The older generation are going on the road and downsizing leaving large houses hard to sell. Smart young entrepreneurs buying large houses and turning them into duplexes.
Yes things are about to change dramatically.