The Nyepi Effect

Every once in awhile, when I leave the compound, I’m fortunate enough to step out into quiet. It might only … More

Ocular Walk-a-thon

While lying on my bed last night, writing on my laptop, I removed my reading glasses to see what little … More

What The (Full) Moon Did

Some things just NEVER happen in Bali, at least not in Ubud. So, when a day starts off with a … More

Always Carry On

Returning from my morning swim in Penestanan, I ambled up the incline through a gully that lies between Campuhan and … More

A Case of Mistaken Identity

This afternoon, like yesterday and tomorrow, I was wading thigh-deep through bushes of Cat’s Whiskers when I had a flashback … More

A Choice to Weed

When I was a teenager, vegetables and flowers grew in our backyard. My mother bought flats and planted, while I … More

Cinq à sept

I had already been awake for quite awhile, thoughts and questions lingering and reaching into the deepest recesses of my … More

Gifts Disguised

The full moon must have knocked me out. Asleep by 9, I awoke with a start, rather disoriented, just before … More

The Lightness of Being Alive

Early this morning, over the phone, with a less than optimal connection from overseas, I heard details (finally) of a … More

Outward Bound

It was an uncharacteristically busy week: I spent most of the first two days at a private luscious organic garden … More