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Meet the Maasai

Rift Valley, Kenya 2010 © kb

Living in the Rift Valley, being with the Maasai each day was a very happy experience. Creativity and generosity were all around us. Life in Maasailand has not been easy. A long period of drought, a mirror of the experience in South Eastern Australia, has meant that the cattle and goats, so central to Maasai life, have struggled to find food. During this period of drought the journeys for the Maasai men grew Read more …

Three journeys

A sad evening in Gunbalanya

The first journey: a state funeral

I had arrived in Darwin the day before.

It is morning now. I open the curtains and look out across Darwin and its harbour. The sun shines brightly, in the morning sky there is the slightest hint that the wet season is on its way.

I do not feel this is the best morning of my life. I leave the room and go down to breakfast. Soon I am in a cab Read more …

The sea, the feather and the dance machine

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Brakes hard on – the engines of our little plane roar – brakes off, sling shot, we lift quickly off the short runway, the wind takes control. Then we are looking at the blue green Read more …

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