ABSTRACT
Dear Dave, I watch your work from across this great land mass and landscape of Australia with delight and interest; and I see kernels of wisdom that might inform this inductive thinking-writing project on soul, community and social change. You have spent many years journeying with, or accompanying, Aboriginal Australians, or at least several organisations that work with them, and this puts you on the cutting edge of social change work. You are engaging with people who are caught at times wanting ‘development’ and yet seem to also yearn for something other, sparked by living culture, a broader cultural archive than the Western, Modern, Development archive. Maybe I am naïve, maybe nostalgic, but I sense this is what is occurring. It certainly is among Aboriginal people of South America, parts of Africa and Asia. I have certainly seen it with my own two eyes in the Pacific nations of Vanuatu and PNG.
