Mullumbimby lucashenko5/30/2023 ''And a group of boys actually walked back from about Rockhampton or even further north, hiding all the way to get back to their home country.''īut the acute observation of the natural world is not only a writer taking notes calculatedly for literary purposes. ''There were people from far northern NSW and the Gold Coast kidnapped into the native police and transferred up into Queensland,'' she says. Lucashenko's great-grandmother Christina was taken from the Tweed at the age of eight to be a ''servant-slave'' in Queensland. The morning felt miraculous … It seemed to her as if the day - this morning, this sun upon these hills - called for a kind of reverence that she could barely express.'' White wisps lingered among the dark knotty pines beside it. Lucashenko writes: ''The bottom dam was hazy with mist. ''For people who practise Aboriginal lore, there is very little distinction between the land and self.'' It is a ''blueprint'' embedded in the psyche, written on the body. Someone knows she is there and someone is welcoming her, but not everything is understood and not everything is to be understood.'' This is about the mystery at the heart of things. ''It is hard not to take these things as signs sometimes. ''I have been that close to a wedge-tail, they are a spectacular bird,'' Lucashenko says.
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