storykeepers...

RECONCILIATION WEEK closes... These words are beautiful and comforting...Boori Monty Pryor is an indigenous Australian born in Townsville, North Queensland in 1950. pic.twitter.com/0UsWQVETQH

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) June 3, 2020

Boori Monty Pryor is an amazing individual.
He is an indigenous Australian born in Townsville, North Queensland in 1950. His father is from the Birri-gubba Nation of the Bowen region and his mother's tribal group from Yarrabah, near Cairns, is the Kunggandji. Boori travels extensively as a performer and public speaker for school students and adult groups throughout Australia and overseas Boori has worked in numerous industries including education, film, television, modelling, sport and music. He has played in two World Masters Games in Basketball competition, winning a Silver Medal for Australia in 1994. In 1990 he was awarded the National Aboriginal and Islander Observance Day Committee Award for "outstanding contribution to the promotion of indigenous culture".    SOURCE: Booktopia

Boori Monty Pryor has also written novels. My review of his novel My Girragundji - about a boy seeking identity - is on my Songlines on the Winds blog.

Words are soft
Words are sound
Words are hard
Words are round

They sing to you
Write to you
Cry to you
Sigh to you

They jumble, fumble
Mumble and crumble
Until they stumble into you

Touch is a word
Smile is a word
Feelings are wonderful words

Sometimes sad words
Need to see
That without each other
There could never be
You and me

Stories could never be told
Or heard
Without you and me

The longest sentence
In this world of words
Is the one that spells
You or me

You and me spells us

And these two letters
Together
Make us all
Storykeepers


SOURCE image + poem:  Australian Children's Poetry