Close your eyes

Perhaps you can smell the salty sea air and its breeze whipping around your body, and feel the widening of your eyes from an overwhelming awe of the gorgeous, sweet eye candy... thus is the Great Ocean Road along the south coast of Australia. More moments wishing our human political wranglings could take a moment to humble down in remembrance of the immense miracle of a globe we live within.

Ah, but our conflicts are part of that miracle as well, and we just need to keep up the struggle to learn how we might transform our clashes by being willing to see a friend in an enemy. With two other peace fellows, throughout our 10-day trip south we spoke at five different Rotary Clubs, and were invited to stay in the homes of various Rotarians along the way. It can be an exhausting endeavor, engaging in conversation outside the normal bubble of those who share a similar worldview as you... but one in which I strongly felt part of a process of positive momentum-building. The challenge is finding a language by which the oft-inaccessible academic jargon can be made useful by way of informing clubs how projects might be made more sustainable and truly transformative.

The Labor Party won in a landslide election last Saturday... momentums shift, we all play our part.

My days in Australia are quickly drawing to a close. Transition in the air, intuiting which way the wind blows...

Soul hug to you