Bill Neidjie
The following quote is from "Story about Feeling", by Bill Neidjie, published by Magabala Books, transcription by Keith Taylor.
" Well I'll tell you about this story, about story where you feel….lay down…
Listen carefully this, you can hear me. I'm telling you because earth just like mother and father and brother of you. That tree same thing. Your body, my body I suppose, I'm same as you…..anyone. Tree working when you sleep and dream…
That tree, grass……that all like our father. Dirt, earth, I sleep with this earth. Grass…just like your brother. In my blood in my arm this grass. This dirt for us because we'll be dead, we'll be going this earth. This the story now….
Listen carefully, careful and this spirit e come in your feeling and you will feel it… anyone that. I feel it…my body same as you. I telling you this because the land for us, never change around, never change. Places for us, earth for us, star, moon, tree, animal, no matter what sort of a animal, bird or snake… all that animal same like us. Our friend that.
This story e can listen careful and how you want to feel on your feeling. This story e coming through your body, e go right down foot and head, fingernail and blood…. through the heart. And e can feel it because e'll come right through. And when you sleep you might dream something….
Now I telling story I can listen this. You listen that wind e come more. Tree e start moving round and feeling.
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