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april 15 the good stuff. rainy. now three shops rosebay flagging. $8 thai lunch on damp day dry in patches. parkedup s/c view east houses on hill bushland at tip. saw foil boat kids go out in a.m. in lite airs they planed. watch goint to newport from today. they set out in the book like a dry run for the boer war, so not much has changed 'cept the environmental cost of armies unsustainable. kev wants japan and india into security council. it's not a broad enough ambit. add brazil pakistan nigeria and indonesia for starters and veto by and in ten years by three. israelis should enter palestine as teachers not soldiers. dare to dream. see gaia. when the real estate bubble in tel aviv twitches buy gold. doesn't take a genius to see the obvious or is the emporer naked! so the challenge arises willy nilly. the only variable is how we respond. the future's being born our role is as midwives nurturing life. revolutions of 1848 spring to mind, a change that brought fifty years of prosperity. global government the sooner the better.
april 16 black hull, black leach, white sails. heading north off newport heavy cloud scattered precip. after my morning clothes day hoping i could get it dry. so it hung out an hour rosebayside. then after rush went thru city over bridge and up thru deewhy briefly til monavale where past efforts greatly rewarded.sticker in cafe, handwavers to the crowd. momentum. zugzwang. feeling of inevitability. gaia growing all over. the collective subconsciousness blowing away the old order. the future is now. and ours to grasp in that moment of change. let's do it rite! earth wind and water. primal forces. parkedup pickup hundred meter cliffside. squalls in the south came north obscuring freighter, sheltered under hatch during shower. sweet. white hull reappeared. boy got sticker on bike and ute bloke checking waves was almost derisive when i asked do you see stickers around here? blue cheeked wren. and a blue patch of sky with white cloud looking like some kingdom come.
april 17 bilgola sleep rainy. coffee honey power start spruik monavale good, good. kfc and received watch registered post. magic. now to head north with symbols of dreaming.
april 18 mor3e showery, fun but. when you do chai latte and flat white for good spruik avalonbeach. met early supporters, brazilian backers, meteorologist bloke just off nite shift. parkedup clubside beach damp, flightiest air flow. early morning bilgola flag session fabulous, one bloke got large for house, i delivered to ridgetop outlook. shower and rpayc for happyhour $2.10 schooners and bar snacks. couches, comfy blue carpet and half hulls around the ceiling. brief interlude piano set satisfied mood. what's not to like. 'one's company' by peter fleming 'times' correspondent in manchukuo 1933 clever fellow my book for the evening. my reflection in the window backed by lites of houses on ridge and vague images of docks and boats, wrikles and age lines a face growing old yet in a way ever more hopeful, my youth having taken the brunt of reality, human folly and cruelity a hard fact to endure. man approached said 'do i know you', showed him sticker and we reconnected. i'm to be famous, for what its worth. don't expect much but it might be useful for planting many millions of trees.
april 19 squalls. monavale spruik quiet. beneteau45 at rpayc for start in wrong fleet. great ride pittwater. beer sandwiches. they started serious drinking, i left for hot rinse. years and years, we swirl majestically around our star. i think a buddha year is twenty billion. well may you say om padme etc. our time is past yet everything that was, is or will be is part of eternity. fare you well.

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