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Christmas dinner with the legendary Dora.

for insects of the air to finish the job. and experience myself differently,
In Australia the custom officer’s enriched and inspired by people I
nose twitched at the strange smell met along the way. To understand
wafting from my luggage. I told him a mystical connection to the land,
it contained clothes not washed since the wind, the sun and the stars.
I first arrived in Fiji. He thought And learning to move through time
better of it and waved me through. and become slower on our journey
The odyssey had come to an end. through life. We cannot take more
Everybody has a different journey, a than one step at a time.
different path. When we are sure we
are on the right one there is no need
to plan our journey too far ahead.
No need to burden ourselves with As Charlie
doubts and fears as to the obstacles Chaplin once
that may get in our way. said: “You’ll never
find a rainbow
I found no answers, only the won- if you’re looking
ders of the world, the capacity to feel down.”

199 steps up to Mission Hill.