24/9/2003

Monday, I drove into Pomona a small rural town in the Noosa Shire for a meeting with people who will play a big role in what I will be doing.

Ahead of me was a huge overpowering mountain, where the King of the Mountain race, up Mount Cooroora is held each year.

The small track is visible up the face of about 458 meters which looks straight up, where only the few who are game travel to reach the top.

Started as a bet by three or four people in 1958. The 4 kilometre race now only has 50 competitors for safety and environmental reasons- is very impressive I look at that track, knowing I am at this moment very unfit, due mainly from the problem with my back and more the resent problem with a frozen shoulder and a lots of laziness on my part.

I said to myself, "I will walk up there one day, I will walk to the top of that mountain "- I thought about the person I would like to walk up there with - to see the view so few get to see.

Pomona is where I relocate within the next week, while I knew early in the year while still in Cairns that I must move back to the Noosa Shire to give the Global Children's Alliance the best chance of success, I didn't know then that this mountain would be part of my strategy.

We all need challenges and strategies, something that pushes us that little bit further, higher, deeper into our own souls.

Pomona is the right address for me.. for others it might not be the right address.

Returning home to where I have been staying, expecting to receive a special card, I find there was no mail. So I rang the sender to let them know, only to find they have the wrong address. Only out by one number.

Shouldn't be too much of a problem - but after going across the road to see the person where the card would have been delivered, knocking on her door and asking if she had received the mail - I sensed that what she was telling me was not the truth.

Being out by one number sets in motions events that changed the reason it was being sent in the first place.

The sender wanted to tell me what was in the card - I said no, if I didn't get the card, I would rather not know what was written in it.

The thought that anyone else had read it before me, would make it second-hand information. Just as I was feeling quite down, a knock on the door, tells me five parcels had arrived for me and neighbours decided to look after them till I got home.

Five very large parcels left Taiwan around the same time as the card left Cairns - I thought how different it would have been if these parcels had been addressed to 21 instead of 22 - would I had got them? So while I was sad to not get the card with a blue flower in it. I am happy that I have the rolls of handprints and pledges of people who will all be working to make it a better world for Caitlin and all children.

Thank heavens they came to the right address.

As for the card and person who sent it, if they are serious they will find other ways to impress me. If not they may not get to get to the top of that mountain with me..

I am busy working with a nice Mum in Canada on plans for me to go there early next year, Jeanette has a son who is a few weeks older then Caitlin and like me she is as worried about his future as I am.

Together her and I and many other will travel to the top of the mountain and see there is a beautiful view waiting for us - but it takes a lot of effort on our part to get there.

Roberto Savio, Alliance of the New Humanity board member, sent me a quick email this morning, which simply said "welll, let us see if we can get some strategy in place..."

Puerto Rico where the Alliance for the New Humanity is located and Pomona where the Global Children's Alliance will be located seems to have a nice ring to it -we are One Mind One Voice all working to get up that mountain to find a better view of the world. At least we can see the mountain ahead, so I must be at the right address.

Have a nice day - I will, I'm moving to the right address and setting up camp at the base of the mountain.

Kerry Bowden
Global Children's Alliance
One Mind One Voice.
A Famility of Humanity
PS: Caitlin say