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When a fly is not a fly

I am free.

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Jacinta Parsons
Oct 05, 2025
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It was something that Jane Goodall said once that helped me capture an idea I was trying to understand, but had no words for at the time.

There is a moment, or many small moments, in a human life when you realise that maybe it’s all a bit of game. That this thing we are doing on earth, living, isn’t what we have all been led to believe it is. Rather, li…

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