A Real Skip

In relative terms, our country is pre embryonic. As history has shown, any country can be invaded and populated by scores of other cultures and civilizations before the die is cast and a people are born. Then the cycle continues, the cast is broken, and another breed, another choice is offered.

We are lucky enough, all of us, to be witness to the planting of the seeds. Australia could be leading the way with ONE people, ONE race, and a GLOBAL culture. We are in the throes of a great opportunity to learn from each and every culture, an Australian way of life, while being guided and advised by the latest original Australians. Our Indigenous peoples, as scattered and fractured and depleted as they seem, were themselves once refugees in this country, and now face the eternal choice made by generations of every culture and country watching the dissemination of their way of life.

We all must embrace the varying racial influences just as much as we need to accept each other and ourselves. It’s just another ripple in the never-ending tide. We’re all a part of the flow. Sometimes you need to let go of the past in order to embrace the future. The children cannot absolve the sins of the fathers. Our job is to understand the lessons and seek each other as a part of the one whole.

My ancestry is so basic compared to that of my children. The whispers in my bones echo from Irish convicts and wealthy English gentry – American Naval adventurers and Welsh servants – Celtic Princes and Yorkshire musicians. Illiterate and illegitimate. Passionate and Desperate. Oversexed and Underfinanced. Overindulgent and Underdeveloped. One generation later, however, the blood of my children flows from a far more exotic Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Central European pool.

After a storm, the colors of a rainbow glow in pure brilliance.

And so it continues, another spice is added to the pot. We all make a shift and extend space to include another shade, another smell, and another taste. Where other races in other places and times have experienced war and suffering, surely we have the benefit of their history lesson combined with our intelligence and compassion. Where is the benefit of needlessly fighting with and within ourselves?

We will only survive and prosper TOGETHER. We all have something to lose and something to gain. But isn’t life a whole series of profits and losses – positive and negative.

My children – Our children can be part of the answer.

Ignorance is a true Educational opportunity isnt it?