Ein Tag...Alles.

Darwin, Australia
May, 22 2009
2:07 pm

I was sitting in a coffee shop this morning reading my book and passing the time as best I can. While I was sitting there, I began thinking about how far away I was and started wondering about all the people that I know back home and what they were doing at that point...most likely sleeping.

For some reason this got me thinking of a story that I heard from Jerry Springer (Yup the smut TV show guy). Before he was the king of trash talk he was a politician and a really good one at that. And even further down the line he was an immigrant to the US. His family left Germany when he was a child. They were Jewish and escaping for a better life. He was small but he remembers arriving into NYC on boat. Everyone he said was still and quite. He was in his mothers arms and the statue of liberty beyond in the distance. When he asked his mother what they were looking at she replied simply, "Ein tag...Alles.", or "One day...everything".

She was referring to the hope of a better life for her and her family. It was the arrival to a new land that promised that.

I like this phrase. I may not be escaping from a troubled land but whenever I look at a globe or map or dream of life beyond my tiny scope of thought, my imagination stirs and all I can think is "Ein tag...Alles."

There maybe times when you travel that you get lonely and things get hard but you remember that this too shall pass. Its all part of something larger and you know it will make you a better person for it.

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blah blah blah blah blah. I don't even know if this makes sense.
I'm sure some of you out there are gonna barf now. Just shut up and tell me what you are up to and show me some pictures.

OK. Enjoy. Here are some pictures of the Crocodile and reptile farm that I went to yesterday. Tomorrow i am heading out to Arnhem land, which is a designated aboriginal sanctuary. Kind of like the Indian reservations in the USA. That should be really cool and I get to see ancient aboriginal rock art and hang out with aboriginals, hearing their story. Ill post some of that on Sunday.
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