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A study in elucidation. What was most appealing about spending time in the outback was catching up on books I'd started to read and "mending my nets". As someone who dropped out of school early and frankly wasn't going to make it to the end anyway I felt abandoned, and heeding to fill in the blank myself. Knowing words was important and really what you had to do was learn one word a day and practice it till it became normal and could use it fill a gap. It was those times when people paused , struggling to find the right word that you may think of words as a fishing net, and when fully constructed would be a tight fit with no holes. It was those thoughts like big fish would escape through the net unless we had the words to hold them as capture. There was other problems too, like the barriers between conscious and subconscious workings. Since ancient times it was a struggle to get the mind to work in your favor. I caught a brief account of ergot and how it would poison a stored supply of grain. But not always deadly and it sometimes had mind altering producing drugs like serotonin. LSD too can be synthesized from it. Medicine is a field where you can make a difference and knowing a bit about medical science can set you apart, as a thinker. But then their was poetry too, the stuff that songs are made of and surely your medicinal degree would fail to that. In the sense of becoming an idol. But to mind altering things it was a risky way to peer through the barrier that was there for a good reason. Your ancestors constructed that barrier and in a lot of ways it made you who you are. Barrier to keep unwanted behaviors in check. Barriers to make you useful to the opposite sex. And it is evident in a simple camping trip too, just how those barriers control you. A couple camping can be completely different from the loner. Deadlines and goals needing to be ticked off for some and others give themselves the freedom to meditate and build an essence of inner fulfillment. The mind is such a stubborn thing to get what you want from it. So often it is what we build around us that keeps us cemented in a hole. A Gordian knot is what I'm thinking and only the slashing action of a sword can break its grip. So we brought wine too, my favorite ginger one. It was okay to pick it up the next day and makes me wonder if ginger is a way to fortify it. A preservative? You mix whisky with your cream to preserve the cream. So I added a bottle of that too. You know how devastating it is to forget something on a camping trip. Once a guy told me he divorced his wife because she forgot the salt. Was he joking? I think Wagyu and trifles would make a good start. Make the camping trip about good food and smoke your mud crab delicately over the remnants of the fire. Make some smokey jerky, with plenty of salt to nibble on. My favorite is to cook pork ribs down to nothing but a tasty dried magnificence. Lets pickle some carrots and cabbage , sauerkraut , let' cook a sponge in the camp oven and fill it with cream from a pressurized can. Invite some camper to try it and watch them marvel at something like that created in the middle of nowhere. You're not just a Hamster on a wheel !    Imagine my surprise when I found out that my opinion actually mattered!  |
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One you're rested and at home with surviving in the outback you may then pick up the gold detector and while away the dying light of the day digging your gold nugget out and then say it's been a perfect day. Imagine my surprise when I found out that my opinion actually mattered!
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When I was growing up my Italian Great Grandmother would take me mushroom hunting....she knew her stuff. This was my favorite find that grows on old oak trees. It's called Hen of the Woods.
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When I was growing up my Italian Great Grandmother would take me mushroom hunting....she knew her stuff. This was my favorite find that grows on old oak trees. It's called Hen of the Woods. Imagine my surprise when I found out that my opinion actually mattered!
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