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June 20, 2017 edition

Recently I was listening to a program on the radio in Australia about Aboriginal songlines, following an elder as he wandered the land and sang the songs of the ancestral spirit of his people. This is such an incredibly rich creative world, holding song, country, nature, humans, and spirits together as one. The ancestral spirit dreams and sings up the world, moving between the ancestral creature and ancestral human. As I listened, I marveled at this totally different way of seeing and being in the world, which I can only faintly glimpse.

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May 23, 2017 edition

Ask many young people today what the distress signal SOS stands for, and few know. Save Our Souls. And when explained, there is puzzlement about the word 'soul'--is this a call for religious salvation? Why not 'Help'? But the word 'soul' here of course means 'life'. It is a call sent when lives are in grave danger.

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April 25, 2017 edition

In my last column about the body, I mentioned that 'the mind', was a word difficult to translate into Indonesian. I decided I had to challenge myself on this, so I have been looking at Indonesian words around 'the mind', 'to think', 'thought', 'consciousness' and 'to know'.

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