THE STORY IS STILL UNFOLDING

The importance of travel in our lives is the story you add to the story of your life. Some travel stories unfold before our eyes and write themselves into our lives.

- CHRIS PARRY

IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STORYTELLING, there is a strong focus on the Dreamtime. These are the amazing stories about how the world was created and how animals came to sing, slither, jump or fly. There is a line in a song from an Aboriginal band called Yothu Yindi that refers to 'Sunset Dreaming' that says,

"It's a story, planted in my mind, it's so clear, I remember sunset dreaming".

The world we live in is very different to the world we were living in two years ago. Recently, I've been doing my own sunset dreaming, thinking about the stories in my mind that are most important to me, the stories of my children.

The best stories about my children are about the times we've spent together. I watched as Tom scored his first goal in hockey and I was so excited I ran onto the field and gave him a big hug and we tumbled over onto the grass. The umpire pulled a red carded on me and said, "Parents are not allowed onto the field."

I was there when Matilda flew in a Tiger Moth biplane, when she sailed away in a traditional three-masted sailing ship and performed music recitals on her trumpet and performed as the lead singer for her rock band.

These are the Dreamtime stories of my children. How they are formed and created.

There's another part of our Dreamtime that I have captured in my writing and radio stories but are locked in the past with an uncertainty about creating new stories.

OUR TRAVELS.

I have been a fortunate father and fortunate traveller. I have e spent time travelling. I have friends from cultures in other countries. I have eaten food I would never eat again and I have eaten food I long for again.