....... we live only through other lives that touch us and that to live in this way at all requires more care then most people are preapared to give. For untimately there is nothing more astonishing, more fraught with mystery, then the mutual responses that occurs across so many obstacles of time, of place, of background, and of the events that form us. When I have experienced it, it has seemed like the only security I have known...... I have tried my hardest to resist change. I cannot move around the world on a string of acquaintances, and the something more that I need ties me more closely to the places and the people where I find it.
(THE HIGH VALLEY, Kenneth E. Read)
29/12/1917- 13/11/1995
The author was an anthropologist and the book is an autobiographicall account of 2 years spent living in Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea in the early 1950s.
The quote is at the end of a chapter about him just witnessing the final act of a bride price exchange for a small girl not yet a woman and how he didnt realise how much impact that she had on him.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Saturday, 21 July 2007
Jumper
OK so I have JUMPED! It was Bloody Fantastic. Feeling Free. Complete adrenalin rush. I wasn't nervous, ok maybe a little but not that much, was more looking forward... and 10,000ft is very high like 3,000m high, like 3km up in the air high. I didn't realise how high till the door opened and the wind, it actually is very windy 10,000ft up among the clouds even on a still day.
The best part was the Free Fall! falling with nothing between you and the earth and you both rushing towards each other. Spreading arms for wings, thought not as efficient with eyes open and the wind rearranging your face.....feeling the full force of gravity. Then suddenly your yanked back up for a bit... the parachute opens and slows your rush to touch terra firma. The parachute is good if you want time to enjoy the view but for the rush the free fall is the best.
oh I forgot to mention, that I am scared of hights.. standing 10m high hights then look straight down and I think I still am scarred..... though hopefully my next jump will be from 14,000ft.
The best part was the Free Fall! falling with nothing between you and the earth and you both rushing towards each other. Spreading arms for wings, thought not as efficient with eyes open and the wind rearranging your face.....feeling the full force of gravity. Then suddenly your yanked back up for a bit... the parachute opens and slows your rush to touch terra firma. The parachute is good if you want time to enjoy the view but for the rush the free fall is the best.
oh I forgot to mention, that I am scared of hights.. standing 10m high hights then look straight down and I think I still am scarred..... though hopefully my next jump will be from 14,000ft.
Saturday, 14 July 2007
10000
I have always liked to think of myself as a bit of a dare devil, a bit adventuress and a bit of a risk taker. Now for the first time in my life I am about to prove it to my self...
I am jumping out of a plane at 10 000ft then free falling for about 35sec before opening a parachute and landing on my feet, if you haven't worked it out yet, its called skydiving. I am doing this with my cousin who got the deal as a 21st birthday present last year. On sunday at our family dinner he asked me if I wanted to do it with him and I said sure and by thursday I had paid up. So as you see not a lot of thought went into it, but I didn't need time to think as this is on my list of one of the things I must do in life.. I am doing a tandem jump which means that I will be atttached to another who will be responsible for opening the parachute, hopefully he is close to 30 (preferably under but experienced) and good looking then I will want to hold onto him for dear life.....lol...hahaha.
I am jumping out of a plane at 10 000ft then free falling for about 35sec before opening a parachute and landing on my feet, if you haven't worked it out yet, its called skydiving. I am doing this with my cousin who got the deal as a 21st birthday present last year. On sunday at our family dinner he asked me if I wanted to do it with him and I said sure and by thursday I had paid up. So as you see not a lot of thought went into it, but I didn't need time to think as this is on my list of one of the things I must do in life.. I am doing a tandem jump which means that I will be atttached to another who will be responsible for opening the parachute, hopefully he is close to 30 (preferably under but experienced) and good looking then I will want to hold onto him for dear life.....lol...hahaha.
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