Wednesday, November 10, 2010

I normally don't like Alan Saunders and "By Design" on radio national, but this afternoon in the rain, driving home from King's Park they had a special series of talks about Home and the concept of belonging.
Architects, about form and furniture and design, Larissa Behrendt talked about the importance of belonging to Country from the Indigenous perspective, writers and comedians said words about semantics and word-meanings and it was all wrapped up in what it means, to each person, to have a home, to belong.

And now I am home. In this little yellow brick house in Duncraig. And some days the satisfaction eludes me. And I wonder if it will ever be complete. If I will be.

If the questions will ever stop coming, if I'll ever be properly happy with where I am and who I am and what I have. But it's getting better. Each day it's getting better.

King's Park was a balm today. Despite the cold needles of rain, the company of lovely people helped a great deal.