We live here among the kangaroos. They are our host, and while we are not entirely beholden to them, we respect them. They are a part of the world we are living in.
The kangaroos have featured on the blog before. They run the risk of overpopulating here on the blog as much as they do on the block.
They proliferate unchecked. The master, the boss, the leader has a larger mob to admire him than he may have done earlier. We might have been predators, had we been hungrier, but we are full from the IGA. All the females have pouches full.
They normally flee as we approach but they increasingly linger, wondering at our lack of boomerangs and rifles.
In the sky
As I drove out this morning, my peripheral vision was suddenly unaccountably full. I looked across to see a spectre standing on the far horizon. It was a kangaroo, but no kangaroo before had been a mile high. No longer bound by gravitational forces this kangaroo was suspended in the sky.
It was a trick of course, a calculation on his part to take me from ease.
I have not seen such an effigy as God before. No man could stand or be suspended as well.
He stood there on the tips of his toes and tail for long enough for me to take my measure and several photos. I shrank the first impression with my understanding but the message was clear.
This place is bigger than I will ever comprehend.