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Cockfighters and Poets
What the cockfighter and the artist have in common is what they put on the line.“Jeff, you can either be a poet or not. There is no in between.”—The Girl Who Could Not Touch the GroundThose were the...
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Honored with Empathy by a ‘Balian’
A life-changing encounter with generous men on The Island of the Gods–––I was just outside Nusa Dua in Bali when I heard of his work in spiritual healing from a local taxi driver named Ketut. I was...
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Steer Your Company Culture: Create Company Rituals
Sue Funkhouser explains that rituals are experiential reminders of what is most valued and are a vital component to creating cohesive company cultures.—As I biked with my husband through a village in...
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Free Exploring The Ghost Palace Hotel
Jacob Laukaitis discovered a massive abandoned hotel in Bali and spent hours exploring it.___I was driving my motorbike around the island almost every single day. On one of those rides, I stumbled...
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One Man, One Motorbike, and Beautiful Bali
Join Jacob on his amazing journey around Bali by motorbike.–––I think traveling is important for men and for women. Travel is very useful, educating, and eye-opening for everyone.I always travel...
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Go Hard or Go Home; Follow Your Bliss and Never Look Back
My inner voice called and I listened…But not immediately.At first, I attempted to ignore, numb and drown it out. Yet again dismiss my intuition like another case of fleeting insanity like so many of...
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Rock Bottom; My Experience and How I Chose to Rise Again
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”– J.K. RowlingA little over a year ago, I hit rock bottom financially and it could also be said I hit rock bottom emotionally as...
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Choosing to Remember the Man in the Mirror
“At any given moment, you have the power to say,THIS IS NOT HOW THE STORY IS GOING TO END.”– Christine Mason MillerSome days you feel so incredibly strong, like you can literally accomplish anything...
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Releasing My Past Self to Step into My Transformation
Transformation is REAL.Over the last four years, my life has undergone tremendous transformational processes. However, this article is not referencing the obvious transformations of my external...
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Red, White, Black, or Before the Eclipse
Red, White, Black, or Before the Eclipse14 Aug 2017The darkness drops again – W. B. YeatsOdd to see it there in the old temple this summer, the signof wellbeing—a bent cross turning, a swastika, the...
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The Great American Solar Eclipse and What it Meant for Me (The Beginning is...
—In the physical sense I entirely missed out on witnessing the astronomical spectacle of epic proportions being the recent solar eclipse, or perhaps better known by its popular media coined title:...
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I Never Escaped the Darkness, I Learned to Love Myself There (Part II)
—Some written therapy…Well nothing personal to Thailand, but my experience living here the last eight months has been far from great, if not one of the toughest, more difficult periods of my life.I...
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Imperialism and Ceremony in Bali
— After participating in a fire ceremony in Ubud, Bali, I had a few conversations with local people to clarify my feelings about rituals, tourism, and cultural imperialism. On the one hand, the...
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How Mount Agung’s Eruption Can Create the World’s Most Fertile Soil
— By Budiman Minasny, University of Sydney; Anthony Reid, Australian National University, and Dian Fiantis, Universitas Andalas Mount Agung in Bali is currently on the verge of eruption, and more than...
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On Art, a Unique Experience of Collective Human Suffering and the...
Today we finally had the opportunity to frame and mount this divine portrait on our lounge room wall (onya Steve!) This painting is by Balinese artist Wayan Sadhu. Seeing it up on the wall is a truly...
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Love for Living Animals: One Million Javan Pied Starling Songbirds in...
By Mona Gonzalez ENVIRONMENTAL ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home...
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With Loss of Forests, Bali Villages Find Themselves Vulnerable to Disaster
By Luh De Suriyani Bali’s Penyaringan village was hit by flash floods in September, which some have linked to the ongoing loss of its forest. While the village’s forest has been designated as a...
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On Reading Nature. A Tale of a Jungle Boy
My youngest son is slow at learning how to read and write. It seems hard, uninteresting and irrelevant to him. The usability of it isn’t clear to him yet; and unless a skill appears relevant and...
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Take Only What You Need: A Story of Holy Cows and Fireflies
My head has been about to explode this past week. I am filled up with the wisdom from Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael that I finished re-reading a couple of weeks ago (actually, filled up is an...
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Aleksandr Voronkov: Pioneering Investments in Bali’s Real Estate Market
— In the dynamic world of investments, one name stands out for its remarkable success in both Bali’s burgeoning real estate industry and the ever-evolving financial market. Meet Aleksandr Voronkov, a...
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