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You oughta see what people say to me! When I first started this site, I was bored out of my mind waiting for the Peace Corps to get its act together, so I wrote a few pages late at night. Now that the page is almost 10 megabytes of information,…
Read MoreTake a Break at Dom Odaha
I went to a sanatorium but I wasn’t crazy My style of training sessions. Go Speedracer! Those fast stops hurt! This weekend, my division of Price Waterhouse went to a dom odaha (rest home), for the weekend. A Russian rest home is not where you send Grandma and Grandpa to…
Read MoreBurning Bodies in Bali
There are no cemeteries in Bali, everyone is cremated The Balinese are a Hindu people, though they do not practice Indian Hinduism. Maybe a thousand years ago they did, but the mixture of animism and Hinduism evolving in the isolation that a Hindu island feels in a Muslim country, puts…
Read MoreBalinese Art: Breathtaking.
The undescribable beauty of balinese art is breathtaking. Balinese have no word for art or artist, the beauty that they produce is considered part of everyday life, nothing special. Of course, I though it was quite special, actually amazing in most cases. Even the money is art! Every morning there…
Read MoreBali Twenty-Five Years Later
Twenty-five years ago I was born on Bali Me! See I was cute from birth. In Bali the men do all the work. Here Suweko is chopping chicken for dinner in 1973. This is the house I first lived in. Now Rassman has it leased to an Aulstrailan couple for…
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