A little bit about the First People

A little bit about the First People

”Do you understand the sadness of geography?’’ Michael Ondaatje The English Patient It doesn’t feel like summer in the Blue Mountains. A cool change has come through the small town of Katoomba. The rolling mists and rain of yesterday are gone. The clouds remain....
Are we ‘children of our landscape’?

Are we ‘children of our landscape’?

”We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.’’  Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet)   I am at Varuna, a house for writers in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. A friend...