I am in paradise. Really I am! Cairns in winter is as close to paradise as you can get. The weather is perfect. The skies are brilliant blue and the rainforest cool. But we are working impossible hours again and I feel horrible. Perhaps if I had just relaxed or not worked a sixteen hour day that first day, the cold would have gone away, but no I feel yuck! Life goes on though and as we are here and I am here, it just makes sense to keep working.
I wish I had a photo from today. Actually I stand corrected. I wish I had a photo of the rainforest in Kuranda as we passed through. I wish I had a photo of the view from Atherton and I wish I had a photo of the sea, seen from the mountain road. No, I have a photo of Healthcare cards and pictures for Companion Cards, but there is hope! Next week I will return to those places and I will get those photos! But for now you and I will have to wait.
Today, in paradise, I listened to a man complaining about how little his government is doing for him and his disabled son. Now don't get me wrong, I think we could do more than what we do for the families and I feel that our government has got much of it wrong. Don't we all! It is hard to hear how badly our government is treating this family, from their government subsidized house on there unemployment benefits, refusing the school that is free because they don't want to go anymore. I keep thinking about J.F. Kennedy and wish that some of that spirit still permeated more:
Because although I can see faults in what we are doing, I think that it is always mostly our responsibility to look after ourselves and our own family. Yes we can tell a lot about a government by how it treats it's weakest citizens, but we can tell a lot about ourselves as well!
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