Nature knows best
Feb 09, 2021
4 minutes
PHOTOGRAPHS DAVE WHEELER
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“TODAY IS THE first day of the rest of our lives.” Dwayne Bannon-Harrison’s words hang in the damp morning air. A choir of cicadas is humming a tune in the background, like a welcome party that’s here to meet us. One by one, we say good morning to Grandfather Sun. It’s a meditation that Bannon-Harrison’s ancestors, the Yuin people of south-eastern New South Wales, have been practising for thousands and thousands of years. “Yesterday happened,” continues Bannon-Harrison. “We can learn from it and acknowledge it. But yesterday is not today.”
I’ve heard various versions of this mantra over the years, in yoga classes and on meditation apps. But this morning it hits differently. Either
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