WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.660 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.660 --> 00:00:04.950 align:middle line:84% I will be reading from two books, which I just 00:00:04.950 --> 00:00:11.160 align:middle line:84% finished recently, one of them called Going for the Rain 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:15.133 align:middle line:84% and the other called A Good Journey. 00:00:15.133 --> 00:00:24.010 align:middle line:90% 00:00:24.010 --> 00:00:33.320 align:middle line:84% "There is a song which goes like this, let us go again brother. 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:36.260 align:middle line:90% Let us go for the shiwana. 00:00:36.260 --> 00:00:39.410 align:middle line:90% 00:00:39.410 --> 00:00:41.690 align:middle line:90% Let us make our prayer songs. 00:00:41.690 --> 00:00:43.400 align:middle line:90% We will go now. 00:00:43.400 --> 00:00:45.200 align:middle line:90% Now we are going. 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.110 align:middle line:90% We will bring back the shiwana. 00:00:48.110 --> 00:00:49.880 align:middle line:90% They are coming now. 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:51.980 align:middle line:90% Now they are coming. 00:00:51.980 --> 00:00:53.270 align:middle line:90% It is flowing. 00:00:53.270 --> 00:00:56.060 align:middle line:90% The plants are growing. 00:00:56.060 --> 00:00:57.890 align:middle line:90% Let us go again brother. 00:00:57.890 --> 00:01:02.150 align:middle line:90% Let us go for the shiwana. 00:01:02.150 --> 00:01:05.570 align:middle line:84% A man makes his prayers, he sings his songs, 00:01:05.570 --> 00:01:09.980 align:middle line:84% he considers all that is important and special to him, 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:15.350 align:middle line:84% his home, his children, his language, the self that he is. 00:01:15.350 --> 00:01:19.070 align:middle line:84% He must make spiritual and physical preparation 00:01:19.070 --> 00:01:21.200 align:middle line:90% before anything else. 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.490 align:middle line:90% Only then does anything begin. 00:01:25.490 --> 00:01:26.780 align:middle line:90% A man leaves. 00:01:26.780 --> 00:01:29.780 align:middle line:84% He encounters all manners of things. 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:34.130 align:middle line:84% He has adventures, meets people, acquires knowledge, 00:01:34.130 --> 00:01:35.960 align:middle line:90% goes different places. 00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:38.240 align:middle line:90% He is always looking. 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:41.210 align:middle line:84% Sometimes the traveling is hazardous. 00:01:41.210 --> 00:01:46.280 align:middle line:84% Sometimes he finds meaning and sometimes he is destitute, 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.830 align:middle line:90% but he continues. 00:01:48.830 --> 00:01:54.410 align:middle line:84% His traveling is a prayer as well and he must keep on. 00:01:54.410 --> 00:01:57.470 align:middle line:84% A man returns, and even the returning 00:01:57.470 --> 00:02:00.500 align:middle line:84% has moments of despair and tragedy, 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:06.350 align:middle line:84% but there is also beauty and there is joy. 00:02:06.350 --> 00:02:09.680 align:middle line:84% At times he is confused and at times he 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.290 align:middle line:90% sees with utter clarity. 00:02:12.290 --> 00:02:16.880 align:middle line:84% It is all part of the traveling that is a prayer. 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:19.100 align:middle line:84% They are things he must go through 00:02:19.100 --> 00:02:23.750 align:middle line:84% before he can bring back what he seeks before he 00:02:23.750 --> 00:02:27.710 align:middle line:90% can return to himself. 00:02:27.710 --> 00:02:30.410 align:middle line:90% The rain comes and falls. 00:02:30.410 --> 00:02:35.180 align:middle line:84% The shiwana have heeded the man and they have come. 00:02:35.180 --> 00:02:38.420 align:middle line:84% The man has brought back the rain. 00:02:38.420 --> 00:02:41.270 align:middle line:90% It falls and it is nourishing. 00:02:41.270 --> 00:02:45.140 align:middle line:84% The man returns to the strength that his selfhood 00:02:45.140 --> 00:02:51.350 align:middle line:84% is, his home, his people, his language, the knowledge, 00:02:51.350 --> 00:02:54.590 align:middle line:90% and the experience of who he is. 00:02:54.590 --> 00:02:57.380 align:middle line:90% The cycle has been traveled. 00:02:57.380 --> 00:03:03.050 align:middle line:84% Life has beauty and meaning and it will continue because there 00:03:03.050 --> 00:03:05.620 align:middle line:90% is no end."