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PROMPT November 18th

Write about origins. You can take this literally as in where your family originated from (your history, culture, traditions), or you can focus on your own origins as a person.

When I read this prompt my first thought was the origin of ideas. Where do they come from? How does the brain come up with an original thought? Does anyone else see the wonder in this?

There is a fascination this days for people to find out where they came from. Television programmes are made with celebrities being taken back in time, sometimes over several hundred years. It makes for interesting watching, although why, I can't really say. After all why should we care if so and so's great, great, grandfather stole a loaf of bread and was transported to Australia? Yet we do.

Then there's your country of origin. I have to answer that question all the time when filling in forms. Really they mean the country of nationality. So I may be an Australian Citizen now but I'll always be of British Nationality. I don't mind, I'll always be a Pom at heart.