Camp 6 Loloho, Bougainville Island
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Happiness was a red plastic chair when my "home" was a 9x9-ft donga tastefully decorated with PLAYBOY centrefolds of girls waxed to the point of martyrdom, when all my wordly possessions fitted easily into a 2ft-wide metal locker, and when my needs for comfort were satisfied by a red plastic chair on the porch.
Photo courtesy of Roy Goldsworthy, now residing in Malaysia
It was on Bougainville Island where it all began, the dreaming of a bigger and better future and the searching for wider and farther horizons. Almost fifty years later, I put this old bleached-out red plastic chair on my jetty (under the OSASCOMP-rules, is "bleached-out" a colour-adjective or an opinion? Please put me out of my misery!)
Colour or opinion (or coloured opinion), I sit on it often and dream of the past, with my horizon no farther away than across the river.
These days, happiness is a bleached-out red plastic chair on my jetty!
P.S. A certain expat, originally from Sunshine Vic. but now residing in Trump's America (and officially designated on the internet as a Republican voter), emailed this photo of himself and three fellow-donga dwellers (presumably not all in the same donga) at Camp 6 in Loloho, suggesting that happiness is FOUR red plastic chairs.
