ICYMI: KAROO DREAMING: Cast your fate to the Platteland wind
Tony Jackman appeals to you to help the Peninsula School Feeding Association, who have had to cancel their annual Blisters For Bread fundraiser. You can feed a child for a month or a year, or feed a class for a year. A R60 donation equals the fundraiser’s entry fee.When chaos falls on the faraway lands, surrender to the terrain you yearn for, the land you trust still to be there when the madness has lifted.
But don’t stay in your car endlessly. Stop, climb out and be still. That smell. It’s wild rosemary andand wild mint. It’s the scent of soil infused with the dung of a thousand antelope and a million birds; they all leave their invisible traces to perfume the air and drift on the breeze that touches your face.
And on we go. On the road again, going places that we’ve never been, seeing things we might never see again. Insisting that the world keep turning our way, even if it doesn’t. But under the Karoo sky, we can pretend it does. We can hide from that world out there, from the siren and the scream, the accusation and the threat. We can burrow like the silent critter. Be still and listen. Pull the veil around us and wait for the faraway disturbance to be quelled.
Make sure you fill up before you get back on the road again in the morning, because the next town is 190 km away and the gauge is looking a bit low. You know you can’t go on thinking nothing’s wrong; that you need to find the place where the kind hand is that will pay attention to your dreams and plug your ears when you hear The Scream. The hand that will hold you when you shake, come around when you break. The hand of the endless plains and the watchful mountains.
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