I sing you to me

The film was “Australia.” It’s epic and shamelessly entertaining said Newsweeks.  I love this movie.  It takes me away which is exactly what a movie supposes to do. What I found fascinating about this film was the Aboriginal people and their culture.   I came across them in the film “Crocodile Dundy”.   “Australia” offers an important cultural experience.   In “Crocodile Dundy” I learned about their “walk about.” The “walk about” is the Aborigine’s way to cross over to manhood.  How it works is they would go into the wild and learn life skill.   They will not be seen until it’s time they want to be seen.   In the Laotian culture, we have a few choices to choose from.   The order in which we proceed varies.   We can enter monk hood (some do to avoid the mandatory draft) and live in the confinement of a Buddhist monastery for a certain period of time, we can join the military, or we can get marry and raise a family.

In “Australia” I learned one thing more from the Aboriginal culture. I learned what singing is to the Aboriginal people. It is said that their ancestors created a song for everything (just like ours); every rock; every tree; every hill; every mountain and so on. They sing to bring everything they wish for to them. That sounds to me like praying in some cultures. We have”Suart Mon or Pavanar” in our culture. I figure singing has its original purposes. Singing today is simply a form of expression. Sing really well earn a whole lot more than mere merit. I loved it when the boy sings to Nicole Kidman, “I sing you to me Mrs. Boss.” I thought that was so beautiful. The boy’s singing was his prayer for someone to come and save him and his family. The boy’s singing brought Lady Ashley (Kidman) to Australia and she did come to rescue them. There was another incident (in the film) when the boy had to sing to stop danger. I thought that was cool how he did it. When they were stranded in the desolate place without water, before all would have been lost, the little boy’s grandfather came and sings them to the water hole.

I sing a lot in my life time.   I will sing on.