because one can

I had dinner with someone relatively new to ricebag the other night - JayBird. She is pretty goddam stunning PNG lass-of-the-vega but better than all of that she has a real true burning fire and passion inside her for PNG, for the environment of PNG - and it's pretty contagious, her fever, and I hope all those people sitting out there cracking a buai and sitting on the curb waiting for someone else to clean up this eco-mess, that they catch a whiff of what's going around and get off their bums and do something about it rather than resign themselves to the untruth that one person cannot make a difference.

Because one can.

And I tell you what - here's a big-up to you JayBird and having Dreams and having Passion and living life like no-one else is going to live it for you. It's a pretty scary path this one, with no room for tunring back so I am so grateful it feels like we understand that we are on the same kind of journey - the one without roadmaps or signposts or sometimes, even without roads. And it seems the only consolation in all of the "unknown" is the knowledge that nothing that is being created or made or dreamt or belived - none of that belongs to anyone else - it's yours. And THAT is why doing anything else feels like suffocating.

So breathe.

And one of the coolest parts of our entire conversation was when she told me about the leatherback turtles - the ancient mariners which come to Madang in PNG to nest and then travel all the way back across the length and breadth of la mer South Pacifica to the west coast of the USA ... only to return. To nest. And then she said Ricebag is a Turtle. And I am. I have been. Travelling along, away, far away across and abroad and along and about and I keep returning. To nest. And so is JayBird.

And maybe we all are. In a way. Maybe we are all 65 million years old and we take 50 years to reach maturity and procreate and maybe for all of us our habitat spans the globe, we all are only 1 to surivive out of 1000. And maybe we are all, maybe we are also, all, becoming extinct.