October282008
"Overlooking My Life So Far
In my life I had accumulated many things in my head - too many things. Memories, tunes, facts, fears, visions, loves, etc., etc. As many as possible. In a fertile mind, such things will interbreed. Mongrel visions are born; hybrid memories; inbred, idiot love. It gets very confusing!
I decided it was time for a good clean-up, so I emptied all this out of my head and pushed it into a big heap to sort it out. There it was - everything that was me, all in a big jumbled heap. I walked around it. What a mess!
Then suddenly I saw it in silhouette and realised what it was. It was a heap. A simple heap. You don’t sort it out, you climb it. You climb it because it is there. Excitedly I clambered to the summit and raised a flag. I was now looking beyond everything that I knew. The view was simply magnificent.
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Michael Leunig
I don’t know how he does it, but there’s always a Leunig piece that mirrors exactly what I’m feeling.
