Sublime

There is more to narrative than simply telling our stories. We have to compare our stories with the stories of others to seek greater understanding about our reality.

Every viewpoint is useful, and it takes a wide diversity of views for any group to navigate this universe, let alone to act as custodians for it.

Most of us have been displaced from those cultures of origin, a global diaspora of refugees severed not only from land but from the sheer genius that comes from belonging in symbiotic relation to it.

tangible reality only exists in defiance of linear time.

But what I gained was important. I lived out in the bush for much of this period and formed close bonds with a lot of Elders and knowledge-keepers across Australia,

There is a balance between self-definition and group identity. These two are not contradictory but entwined, and there are names for all of the roles you occupy as an agent of complexity in Aboriginal society.

The ability to write fluently in the language of the occupying power seems to contradict an Indigenous author’s membership in a community that is not supposed to be able to write about itself at all.

if you can change your “look” into “gaze” and take it in.

If people are laughing, they are learning. True learning is a joy because it is an act of creation.