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You Are the Earth
You are not living on the earth, you are the earth.”
~ A. Marcus
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My people see land ownership as being totally different to the English. We lived on the land as people of the land. To us it was a natural way of being, being part of all that there is. You didn’t see anything as different from you. If you’re alive you connect to everything else that’s alive.
You can never feel lonely in that situation. All around you are family members from the ground up; the trees around you, the clouds, birds flying by, the animals and reptiles.
That’s the beauty of oneness, it doesn’t push anyone out, but it brings everybody in. It stretches from horizon to horizon where the clouds are your ceiling at daytime and the stars at night. But that ‘oneness’ has been shrunk down to the ‘mineness’ of this little box, ‘my house’, ‘my car’. So small in comparison. You’re part of the oneness and you can feel that. You feel good when you’re in that space.
~ “Uncle” Bob Randall, Aboriginal elder, singer, writer, teacher, community leader.
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Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we’ll reach a point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we’d do and become will never come to be — and that we’re ordinary.
