Page 51 - The Bulletin #135 Summer 2021

and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
It’s not just about getting out this summer but trying to soak in everything
you are seeing. It’s not just seeing things, it’s experiencing them. Going into some of those areas that were fire ravaged last summer and learning more about how and why it occurred. Would adopting some of the fire— controlling techniques of our First People’s have made a difference? Marvel at the first budding of new growths. Reflect on this for a while and realise this will go on ad infinitum
long after we have long gone from this world. Rediscover your childhood and play
games with your kids. Read them Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Even your young adult kids. Teach them and yourself never to get so buried down in life that you can no longer see the forest for the trees. Wander along beaches and rivers wondering. Finding shells, crustaceans, cuttlefish, snails, jellyfish. Going home and learning about them.
Lie on your back under massive Mountain Ash trees on Maits Track in the Otways west of Lorne, seeking glimpses of the sky through this mighty majestic
greenery. Wind down your windows and breath the nakedness and freshness of it all.
As Rachel Carson told us, you’ll never weary of life if you seek and find life wherever you are. Netflix and Instagram and Zoom might have held us together through a hard winter but they don’t necessarily inspire us. Be inspired and filled with Wonderment and never let it go. It’ll be too late otherwise.
By Gareth Andrews, Founder
– Life Again Foundation. For more
details, visit the website lifeagain.com.au
THE BULLETIN – Civil Contractors Federation VIC SUMMER 2021 51
A MESSAGE FROM LIFE AGAIN
It ’s not just about getting out this summer but trying to soak in everything you are seeing. It ’s not just seeing things, it ’s experiencing them.