It's Australia Day and many of our Cuties have wished us well. Thank you for your good wishes. Right now our country is experiencing all of the natural disasters described in the poem, 'My Country', but right here right now, in Mount Gambier, a more perfect day could not be wished for. Today, my place must surely be the jewel in the crown we call Australia.
You might wonder why the Aussies rally in a spirit of larrikanism, having fun in their own peculiar way. Over the years I, too, have pondered this thought many times. Dorothea Mackellar, an English immigrant, wrote a poem for her family back in England that beautifully describes the magnetism this land has for its people.
She called her adopted country 'a wilful, lavish land' and it is; and over the decades, and now centuries, we Australians have learnt to not take ourselves too seriously but to love this fickle, generous country that we are privileged to inhabit with a fierce loyalty that comes from coping with whatever is thrown our way.
Please enjoy reading 'My Country' by Dorothea Mackellar, often more commonly known as 'I love a sunburnt country'.
http://www.dorotheamackellar.com....
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Thank you for sharing,and Happy Australia day to all. This really is a remarkable country. I would not live anywhere else.
19430Hope you all had a happy day here it is almost 9pm GOD BLESS YOU ALL :)) carolyn
360641Hi Alma, fabulous weather here today - have just got home from the Australia Day breakfast, Awards Ceremony etc. Having a coffee while hubby takes the grand-daughters to check the herefords and the stock water and other farm things.
16529A beautiful poem and obviously a love poem to the country she loves. Thank you for sharing it and Happy Australia Day my Cuties!;)
158715Great place Sth Aust, Beaut day here in the Adelaide Hills as well.
29801Happy Australia Day to all of the cute Aussies out there! I've never been to Australia, but would love to go someday.
11860Thank you for sharing this piece. I think if I ever went there, I would never leave.
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24342It's such a part of my school history and coming from South Australia myself, I can visualise all the images she refers to. Love Chris
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