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Rejuvenated - back from the Desert.
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Subject: Rejuvenated - back from the Desert.
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
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There were just 3 trees and nothing else. From horizon to horizon flat
stony desert in Australia=92s Outback. Explorer Sturt in 1845: =91...the
most cheerless and the most forbidding of any landscapes our eyes had
wandered over=85' No Mcdonalds. No tourists. Not even electrons - no
internet.
I love that spot.
Used to months of re-active thinking following prompts from the
computer, my thoughts were at a loss. There was no command to obey, no
sound, no diversion whatsoever. A complete otherness. It scrubs your
brain.
Dog Rusty was lying down muzzle on a paw, his style when thinking
deep. Far away a heat haze shimmered upwards. It deleted the horizon,
made Heaven and Earth be one and Rusty grinned.
It took a while, then, clutter-free, my thoughts became their own
again. They leafed through some pages of the life I=92ve lived - and
some not lived yet. They created doodles through no-mans-land. They
did what kiddies do: they daydreamed. Useless, simple and happy. Had
forgotten all about it.
I love the Stony Desert. It=92s my head=92s Recycle Bin.
There is a short clip about it in the video section of my website. I
called it =91Three Trees Dreaming=92
Cheers - Klaus and Rusty
http://www.oz-greetings.com.au
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