red-tailed black cockatoo: Old Friends

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Old Friends

Old friends 18-09-08

Noongar boodjaa nidja yaaragat nyininy, djert mai kaadidjiny, djitti-djitti kaadidjiny, djinaanginy niint kwoordidjiny.

Yeyi ngientj nidja nyininy, kaaram Prague Czech Republic kaalagap yiddiny...Czech mai dwonkabert... yeyi nidja boodjaa ngientj benaanginy, yaalanginy... baal kwopidaa!!

And these leaves, the leaves beyond my window from the English plane plantanus orientalis have returned, small leaves but growing large. Through them, in between them I can see the sky. Through them I see the tree's bones we call branches, limbs slowly filling with green...

I have returned and old friends can I see.

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At September 18, 2008 at 2:39 AM , sarah toa said...: Hi Tim, I've kept up with your lovely comments (I love them, even if i don't understand a word!)through my friend Bob's blog Kiangardarup Kyan Gaduc. I still have a link to him on my blog. It's taken me a while to visit you. I miss him terribly.
At September 24, 2008 at 5:41 PM , seedling said...: Im glad you are back sitting on nyungar country and happy to be home una.

Djiti djiti always follows the traveller :)

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Name: McCabeandco

Location: Perth, WA, Australia

I am a doctoral student in humanities, studying Indigenous spaces and nourished terrains, landscapes, cartography and places called home. The window where I sit looks north into a grove of platanus - plane trees - ranging in size from 10 to 15 metres. Another window behind me, looks east into the same grove of platanus that shield the hollow where I sit writing my thesis. Beyond the grove of platanus orientalis stand another grove of aged Pines. In amongst these trees are both the movements of air, birds, people and transformations of colour and of the seasons through winter into summer. Sometimes, I see assembled scholars and students, both those gathering or slow walking in pairs, before disappearing engulfed in the green beyond and bending around me. The point of keeping a blog on the view from this window is to inspire the observer within me and to identify with that which conjures a view to wild places and my imagination and insights. For nearly 12 months I have sat here and thought repeatedly about the insights this view has given and this blog is the best way I know of not forgetting what I see when it arrives.

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