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How Much can a Koala Bear? Anzac 2008 editorial by Maiia

2006 Anzac editorial -we looked at the art of Australian patriot and visionary Henry Lawson

    2007- Was a odd year in Cairns, our visit to the RSL didn't seem to have the same sense of on-going community.  Maybe it was the realities of war or maybe it was the passing of our old favourite  Caberet John Diffen -  no Cobb 'n' Co playing our favourite tunes.

2008: Five years into this Iraq thing- we're startin to see the veterans return to community. 

Healing The Warrior

Maiia; My father Stan Rolfe out there in Charleville said - to my observation that a disproportionatly high number of Vietnam veterans turned up in public bars during the 1980's and 90's.  "It's always like that.  At the end of ww2 you'd see the falla's  -fallin' asleep on the street.  It's the same thing."

Back then we didn't have a university name - Post Trauma Counsel. 

There still are tears beneath - what they call ww2 and Vietnam.

Punter "It's all in the past now."      Maiia pointing out the obvious " Then why are we about to start crying if don't change the subject?"

  Our old people passed on knowledge of spiritual healing in story and song.   We don't have a clip of Greenie and them doing People Get Ready so Curtis Mayfielod it is... 

Tsukina Waguma - Crescent Moon Bear!

  The Story!    -the species

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes - "As post-trauma specialist, she began her work in the 1960s at hospitals caring for severely injured children, 'shell-shocked' war veterans, and their families. - Wikipedia.

"The central motif of this story is found throughout the world.  In some cases it is a woman who makes the ascent, in others a man." says Pinkola. The young woman goes a quest - when she returns the healer throws the 'magic' symbol into the fire.  And says the quest itself was the remedy - not the symbol.  Go home and apply what you have learned along the way.

"We can have all the knowledge in the universe, and it comes down to one thing- practise.  It comes down to going home and step by step implementing what we know.  As often as necessary, and for as long as possible, or forever, whichever comes first." 

 PEACE and Non-violent conflict resolution in Cairns

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