Going Home Story

Warring: A Boorong Star Story

A reimagined story

When we look up and see the Milky Way, we see a white hazy part. This is the Sky Camp and it is made by many camp fires in the sky, all the white parts are the smoke from the fires. It is known as ‘Warring’ and is a galaxy that even includes Earth’s sun as one of its millions of stars. The Milky Way is the biggest place and in big flat desert Country, you can see the Sky Camp for a long way.

When you look up at the Sky Camp, you know there are many, many stars beyond it. Many galaxies even. We like to think that when our bubbas couldn’t stay with us, they travel back through the stars. They stop by the Sky Camp, get warm by the fire and cleansed by its healing smoke. Then they travel through, back as spirit, in the stars.

We see different parts of the Milky Way at different times of the year as it turns around the Earth. It is always there, we always know it is there in its fullness, with its healing smoke from the sky campfires, holding us through the night.