AncestralPlace

The topic for October 1, 2003:

Ancestral Place

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[Mulubinba Moments] Ancestral places are not just old places, they are places where we can feel a connection with the generations that have gone before us. Ubirr is an Aboriginal site in the Kakadu National Park of the Northern Territory of Australia and it is truly ancient. Thanks to Bill Neidjie and his people, when I stood and gazed at the rock paintings at Ubirr I could clearly hear the voices of his ancestors from thousands of years ago...

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[Fragments from Floyd] ...Nevertheless, with the quick passing of decades, I do feel some need to find roots. If I am to know ancestral places, lacking any of the old-fashioned kind, I will be happy to adopt them: this old house, this patch of land, the Blue Ridge Mountains... and the people who have loved them long before I did. If they will have me, my belonging will be here to these places, these hills, these people.

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