Wholly Strange and New by Bridget Pilloud
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name;—— the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can you remember a moment in your life when you had life in yourself and it was wholly strange and new? Can you remember the moment when you stopped walking a path of someone else, and started cutting your own?
Write about that moment. And if you haven’t experienced it yet, let the miracle play out in your mind’s eye and write about that moment in your future.
(Author: Bridget Pilloud)
Wholey Strange and New by Andrew Cairns
Going to Australia for 5 and a half weeks (in 2004) was a great experience where I discovered a strange new continent with different sounds and smells and sights. I ventured out into the bush (backpacking / minibusing with small groups of other independent travellers) and along the Great Ocean Road and down the Gold Coast. I felt a great sense of freedom and opportunity, of the wildness and immensity of nature. So many amazing places where you can see beautiful unspoilt scenery stretched out before you, hear only the rushing of waves, the call of exotic birds and the song of cicadas. Climbed in the Flinders ranges and Kings Canyon, hiked around Uluru and the Kata Tjutas, biked to canyons and water-holes near Alice Springs, scuba-dived near Green Island (Great Barrier Reef - off the coast of Cairns), snorkelled in various places on Gold Coast, 4x4'd round Fraser Island (with 9 other people), explored huge dunes on the Great Ocean Road, met my crazy Australian cousins, ... a great adventure which made me feel alive.
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