General News
25 July, 2024
Barry's Corner
Every day, week or month we can find a celebration for some action or a call to attention to focus on issues we should learn to appreciate.
Such days can highlight family violence, children, food and music, among many others.
Recently we have celebrated Naidoc Week where First Nations people have drawn up activities to reach out to the wider community to explain their heritage and show their works, play some music and have a good time.
The Chinese make a real feature of days and dates.
You can be born at a certain time during the year and forever be known as a bull or a snake, among others.
Then there is the day of the acacia species on the first day of spring and September.
Many of the regional wattles will be flowering by then and this suddenly lifts the colours along the roadsides, gardens and bushland and parks.
This is a great time to be walking around having a good look at these first response plants.
Of all the areas that have been burned there is a good covering of young wattles which helps protect the soil and provides cover while the larger eucalypt makes a start.
These trees grow slower and stronger and catch up with the dashing wattles and can eventually shade out the ground covers.
This is a natural process and helps explain why the bush is constantly changing over the course of a season.
Soil types can alter the species mix as well.
Our culture has celebration times such as the Kings birthday, show day holidays, lunar activities, horse races and Anzac Day.
We also need to think about involving our Indigenous mob to take part in a celebration for their part during our wars, let alone the calamity put on them during the Black Wars in colonial times.
It would set the record straight if we had the discussion and came up with some solutions.
It would resolve many issues and turn a page in our history.
It should be an important part of ourselves.