lombok

lombok is paradise on earth :D
just came back from kuta (look it up - kuta, lombok - NOT kuta, bali!) it's such a GREAT GREAT place! it was very hard to leave... but i'm trying to get to sumba which is not so easy... i almost hopped on the big ship going there the other day... but then i didn't so i could go to kuta beach :) totally worth it! a village full of very nice people! amazing waves - sadly many of them are not being surfed... while the dirty waves in kuta, bali are always overcrowded!
i feel i got a new family in kuta lombok :) and i can't wait to go back! i negotiated 5 ares of land already :) and found a great cook that would work for me :) and i can easily imagine a happy simple life in front of that dramatic landscape listening to the loud LOUD waves :) i've also been invited to work at the university of Mataram :) and i met the perfect surf instructor :) and it feels like part of me is staying in kuta beach, in a dimension where i live that perfect sweet and quiet life by the beautiful ocean, eating ripe fruit and just being happy in that simple way of being happy, the best way i think x
having such a great time here :)
sweet beach days with many papaya shakes and sasak food xx

snorkelling paradise

padangbai, east bali :)
i have seen about 12 nemos today!! and among all the other amazingly coloured fishes.... he's not even that spectacular! traveling underwater and loving it :D
i can see lombok from here though... and every 90min the boat goes and signals a departure... so i might leave soon, and go on island hopping :)

time to make a move

will be leaving ubud after my healing massage :) and my croissant with an energizing smoothie at bali buddha - love that place! i'll be travelling north to the place where bateson and margaret mead lived :):):)

quiet

today i found a great healer :) it's so amazing how different it feels when such hands touch you and everything is stirred and things move, changing all there is inside you, and at the same the universe ** so magical. like this island. all this transformation is quiet and balanced, or tending to some sort of balance, a new way. i love how one has the ability to find the place where they need to be and get there. once there you just have to give space and time and you will find whatever you had to find inside of you. by yourself, through a messenger, with the trick of a massage, a special tea, or any sort of witchcraft that you might coose *

universal happiness

if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. the key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility, the dalai lama

reflection time

everything is alive

yesterday i woke up at 7am with my bed shaking. it was going up and down and to the sides and rocking and it took me a while to realize that it was an earthquake. i got up and tried to think of the things you always hear you should do but i was still half asleep and trying to figure out if those things apply to a hut that only really has a thin wall around it and a straw roof... and by the time i opened the door and started talking with the slightly panicking family from the jungut inn... suddenly it all stopped and things seemed quiet, much more quiet than your average quiet. everything was still and it felt so stable! so i went back to sleep :) for the first few minutes i still felt the bed rocking a bit... and i fell asleep feeling great to know that everything is so alive and moving, so much that the earth can shake you out of your place like that :) it was a 6.4 earthquake apparently ++