So tongue in cheek?

Well ah'll be!

Coming hot on the heels of Yuyutsu's post, I figured we'd hit loon paradise.

Jocelyn was a very lucky girl that two guardian angels (what else might one call the two mothers?) persisted and used a combination of their familiarity and empathy with children and their intuition and lateral thinking to 'wild card' areas to (re-)check.

It was a cold night again last night, with a heavy dew. The area where young Jocelyn was lost is very difficult to search and there are numerous natural hazards from deep flowing water with bull sharks to coastal taipans and browns. You would have to be shoulder to shoulder, dragging your boots through the overgrown tall grasses, vines and brush. Even then she could have been missed or doubled back. Infants are tiny when they scrunch themselves up and fall unconscious. Talking about snakes, there are large pythons in that heavy low brush that are regularly photographed consuming wallabys. Then there is the two legged risk.

Hats off to the two mothers who let their experience and intuition set likely places, wild cards, to check.

I don't imagine that many here apart from Poirot so far who realise just how close that was to another tragic, unresolved missing child. A tough kid though to have been still on her feet. Although she would have crashed not so long after if not rescued.

Poirot,

nicknamenick was telling of his own experiences and desperately reaching out for understanding; we have failed him.

And people left blankets and mattresses and food out on their front lawns, in case that little girl wandered into their yard.

I'll bet many complete strangers were in tears when she was eventually found

It's called 'community', Yuyutsu.

Joe

Dear Poirot,

«Five year-old humans require older humans to care for them»

The soul who happens to currently wear that body called 'Jocelyn' is neither five year old nor a human. It could have been around for billions of years and treating this soul as if it was merely a biological body is shameful, disrespectful and anything but "caring".

Denying Jocelyn her freedom under the pretext of caring for her (that is, for her body) is a patronising disservice. All the perpetrators really care for is to confirm their own social position so they look good by their peers of a similar value-system.

Had Jocelyn wanted to be taken home, she would have stood up rather than try to escape, or she could have simply returned home on her own:

I was two years old when I escaped from kindi, never to return there. There was an oppressive and cruel supervisor there and I knew exactly what I wanted: to be free! Knowing that I could not do much on my own, I first tried to organise the other children, so that each takes a toy or a similar object, then we would all simultaneously hit and kill her - but those stupid children failed to appreciate the plan and cooperate, so instead I found a way to escape and walked back home, 2 streets away. If I could at two, so could Jocelyn at five.

Talking about snakes, Jocelyn's body may not have survived, but then Jocelyn could have died in freedom and in nature, happily as she wanted rather than having to grow and struggle through today's stressful consumerist and digital jungle.

The elderly too are locked away in nursing homes, often against their will and as we just read in the news today, some are even tortured there.

This twisted Western society only values body-counts and has no respect for individuals - young and old, allowing neither to live and die in dignity. It irrationally considers physical-death an enemy while it applauds spiritual death and vanity.

Maybe it is loon paradise after all. I took Yuyutsu as being satirical but is dead serious it seems. So my satire would then seem equally serious to Poirot. Now Is Mise says I'm telling my experience, even after I said it's a joke. And otb gave the topic to show that Australia has at least 1 good thing about it.
I'm going outside to bang my head on the ground and I may not return.

erm,
that's a joke don't ring 000.