It was all about the details today. So many details. So many lives and some much complexity and so much complication...
So many biographical details, cultural details, political details, historical details...
It's late so I'm just writing an overriding impression from the day: these histories are not outlines but mosaics. You know those posters that are made up of thousands of little images of the person depicted in the poster; the photographic mosaics? That's what these details feel like...
Indigenous histories span out as they span back... more like an ever-expanding tide emanating in all directions from a single point than a one-way narrow river...
It can be disorienting; maybe even paralysing... but also, at moments like this, invigorating. Humbling. And, dare I say it, inspiring.
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