They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

Finally the sun shines after what seems days of rain.  Was it great to see this? Yes, it was because finally I could get some early morning rays into my body.  I love the sunshine at dawn.  In the image above I was standing at the base of Uluru at Dawn, my favourite time of the day.  I felt more than connected to the universe in this moment and during the time I spent with the Anagnu people.

Because I have great respect for the various vibrations and resonating energies that are about me, I had to make some changes around our house.   So yesterday we moved the lounge room around so as to freshen the energy in the room.  It was the last room to do.  I love cleaning so it was a lot of fun re arranging things in new places and re grouping and going over scraps of paper, one of my  bad habits.  If only I could pick up my book and write my varied scribbles then it would be so much easier to find what I am looking for usually.  Endless song lists and phone numbers with no names attached.  This is another bad habit.  I write these numbers down and neglect to add a name lately and this is such a pointless affair.

Today the Uluru images numbering approximately 10 gig were fully collated for the film maker.  I did most of this yesterday but I abandoned the job in favour of furniture re arrangement.  So with a fresh mind I finished it off today.  Tyrone can take the images and put together a show for Uncle Tom and his friends who helped him get to Uluru and realise his life's dream.

Image by Mezza - Mary realising one her life's dreams looking at Uluru

Just because you don’t drink alcohol does not mean that you are free from addiction.

The Complimentary bottle of wine left in our room for us at ULURU

You could have all of the traits of an addict — the denial, the discomfort with intimacy, the need for unreasonable power and control, the inability to let go, the inner torment, the insecurity masked by grandiosity and so on — without being an alcoholic.
Friel, John; Friel, Linda D. Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families

When we got to Uluru there was a bottle of champagne in the room waiting for us. I would have loved to have drank this but because Suzie didnt want to help me then I never got to drink this.  I am going to get a cheap bottle to rekindle this pleasure though.
Image by Mezza - Killawarra sparkling wine

The Red was everywhere and it was good.

My God I love this place.  My hair dries quickly here as well.  But really it is just beautiful to be here and to smell the place.  It smells good and healthy and rich.  Like as if you made mud and wiped yourself you would be enlivened fully.

This is Nana.. and she dances

I drove around in the car with Nana and Aunty Alison and I got to know her a little closer.  She told me about trying to buy marbles for her grandsons and she said it was hard.  I would really love to be able to send marbles to the mission for the kids and let them have them easily like there neighbouring kids down the road at Yulara 20 klms away.

I suggested to Nana that if her grandson would not go to school then perhaps she could nicely bribe him to go with a marble each day he went instead of just giving him the entire bag at once.  My theory in this is that hopefully in the meantime while being promoted to go he will be successfully engaged into some sort of regular learning model.

Image by Mezza -  Nana Dancing at the Maracoola Arts Centre at Yulara NT

An authentic travel and cultural experience

Ayers Rock Resort provides a variety of accommodation options for every possible taste and budget - from the premium Sails in the Desert Hotel, and Australian Tourism Award-winning Desert Gardens Hotel, to the self-contained Emu Walk Apartments, the authentic Outback Pioneer Hotel and Lodge, and the Ayers Rock Campground, offering powered campsites and air conditioned cabins.

Voyages Logo

 This was really good to find out everything about Voyages and Longitude 131°.  The budget accommodation would have suited me better but I stayed with Uncle Tom in the Emu Gardens Resort.  For all information regarding work or holidays at the rock go to this website for Voyages and check it out.

Resort and Tour Booking Office

 I would most certainly go back again tomorrow as the working conditions are superb for a start. There is so much opportunity for someone who just wanted to work.  I want to go back and stay with Aunty Alison and the opportunity and the invitation is there to do this.  I would love to go and help her and be her hands and feet for her for a good while longer than a couple of days.  I will write to her and phone her when I can.  I certainly loved the old sisters and I want to know how they are getting along in respite.

A Yarn with a friend about why the name change and calling it Uluru and not Ayers Rock etc.

My Friend speaking :

 Mary I'm not picking on anyone and as you know Max is part Koori and our best man was true Koori. Now, how come land can be called after the Koori people as they were known as nomads. Even I learnt that as school. We can't understand why that is all, maybe you or someone can answer this for me. No racism meant. Geeze it hard to talk of facebook, if you have a different opinion your the worst.

My answer:

The first part is easy... this was its original name before white man came...And there is no English explanation of this word in fact!  Which I find very interesting on another level as I think that its a secret and a well kept one with in a honourable people.  These Anangu People still do full ceremony there and there are few places as special as this one in the world to preserve the most original an antiquated culture in the entire world / I believe a culture straight from the stars themselves.. These beautiful people live such a weird life as they are thrust into the 21st century with us all. It was an experience in itself to be there and to feel this and to see it and smell it. It is a conquering nature that fights for a silliness about it being not called Uluru / the black-fella out there refers to it as Ayers rock resort that's all so it has its place / The resort and the town of Yulara is white fellah and so then there is Ayers rock resort.. does that answer my point of view on this... What you want to call it though is up to you.. Its like walking on the rock... Some people find that I am strange because I didn't walk or desire to walk on the rock / primarily it is respect for the people who ask all visitors not to walk on this most sacred place... We cannot wander all over the Opera house at will for free up the sails just coz we wanna / there are going to be laws in place soon as ppl must do it on their own accord and risk and there is no help for anyone so really it is very steep and quite silly and many have died doing this and Japan had a Tsunami after the bloke scattered the Japanese girls ashes off the rock / that probably invoked real bad energy and the earth returned with what she did! just saying!

My Friend speaking again:

yes sweet I can understand outback but I'm talking for the likes of places on the coast the same here saying it is so and so land. Don't ask me to spell any of it. I know Ayres Rock is sacred. I'm meaning other place my dad worked with them back in the old days and always said they move on. Hence the word walk about.

My answer once again and explanation of my point of view

Well they take a walk to do ceremony and its bad magick to not accept and go when asked.. its a way the white-fellah cant understand and in that they are honouring the earth and each other.. they dealt hard with law breakers and so that is why and so there is a lot to be said that the white fellah cant have it both ways! Now it seen as REAL BAD what they did in the past trying to kill out an entire culture that is Genocide.. Now what culture is left needs to be brought out into everyday language and recognised as such to preserve the truth and integrity of the land / the land being the most important part. There are many sacred dreaming places that have been decimated in the past but we should pull that behaviour up straight away. The indigenous people have some of the most beautiful places as sacred places and its not hard to tell why as those places are alive with spirit and that goes all the way to the coast as the story goes along the language groups and the dreaming lines etc.. there are very sacred places here in our back yard that are in fact connected to the Dreaming of the Anangu people as the Byamie moved across the land forming everything as he went.. turning up with the three of sisters being in the rock at the blue mountains etc... these are the sisters of the seven sisters which is integral in the dreaming stories on all of language groups.. So its not about out there and over here.. out there and over here is connected in a big way so it cannot be separated really!

Images by Mezza -
1. Voyages Ayers Rock resort owned by the ILC 2. Booking Offices
3. Old deadly Sisters who were going into respite.  I loved them.

And it is Sunday and today is the day

Touching down in Uluru..

What a flight, what an amazing country we live in and what I have just seen.  I am gobsmacked by the sheer beauty of the surrounding country side and then seeing Uluru flying in and the the Olga's in the distance.  I saw the mission of Mutujulu on the other side of the rock and the Resort complex and Yulara were clearly visible from the air in the sparce and very very red landscape surrounding this magnificent place called ULURU and the Kata Juta National Park.  

Image by another Mezza.. Me and Uncle Tom and Suzie getting off the plane at Uluru NT.

We all have the ability…we just don't all have the courage to follow our dreams and to follow the signs.

Paulo Coelho

There are many signs in life we should use as sign posts for making some of the bigger decisions of life but at times we are so blinded by our own emotions we simply miss the entire sign and get ourselves well and truly lost so to speak.

The signs need to be followed for one to live a happy and productive life.  In each of us are capacities and special qualities unique only to us as individuals and we need to find them as soon as possible in life so that we don't waste time being or doing things we end up abhorring.

I read once that you will never be rich doing something you hate.  So really rich here doesn't solely mean financial wealth.  One needs to be rich in spirit to attain good health.  Your entire body and mind and spirit are effected when you must do something you dislike day after day.  You then become a pseudo slave.

Last time I looked at the definition of slavery it didn't actually line up with the definition of being rich. Quite the contrary.  You are continually robbed and all of your personal joy is stolen until you feel that this is hell on Earth.  Your not rich, you are very very poor.

In 49 days I will see Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park

 Image by Mezza - Urunga at dawn 2012

We all have the ability…we just don't all have the courage to follow our dreams and to follow the signs.

Paulo Coelho

There are many signs in life we should use as sign posts for making some of the bigger decisions of life but at times we are so blinded by our own emotions we simply miss the entire sign and get ourselves well and truly lost so to speak.

The signs need to be followed for one to live a happy and productive life.  In each of us are capacities and special qualities unique only to us as individuals and we need to find them as soon as possible in life so that we don't waste time being or doing things we end up abhorring.

I read once that you will never be rich doing something you hate.  So really rich here doesn't solely mean financial wealth.  One needs to be rich in spirit to attain good health.  Your entire body and mind and spirit are effected when you must do something you dislike day after day.  You then become a pseudo slave.

Last time I looked at the definition of slavery it didn't actually line up with the definition of being rich. Quite the contrary.  You are continually robbed and all of your personal joy is stolen until you feel that this is hell on Earth.  Your not rich, you are very very poor.

In 49 days I will see Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park

 Image by Mezza - Urunga at dawn 2012

In 50 days I will see Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park

50 Days... and counting.

 Between today's date and the date I see Uluru for the first time is fifty days in total today. So today we will start our countdown from here On the Hill.

I am like this piece of vegetation hanging off the side of the bridge, because I am so excited.  colloquially speaking I am simply hanging to get there.  I am going to take the most amazing photographs of my entire lifetime perhaps.  I will try to cram in as much practice as possible before I leave. 

Image by Mezza -  Something Hanging at Bellingen March 2012

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I am like this piece of vegetation hanging off the side of the bridge, because I am so excited.  colloquially speaking I am simply hanging to get there.  I am going to take the most amazing photographs of my entire lifetime perhaps.  I will try to cram in as much practice as possible before I leave. 

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