November 4, 2014
Padangbai, Bali, Indonesia
It’s very strange to be in one place for so long. It certainly doesn’t happen in LA. We drive drive drive. Go go go. How many trips a day?
But here, at the villa in the middle of the eternal coconut and banana field, I find there’s no place to go. Nothing to do. What for? I’m already here. Content. Cooking, sleeping, waking, writing, walking meditation in the warm, turquoise overflow pool (that doesn’t work sometimes). I mean, just walking improvisationally in the pool, 10 times a day. C’mon, it’s really hot here. Arranging fallen frangipani flowers along the white stone lip of the pool, an occasional bike ride to the morning market for fresh chicken, vegetables, eggs. Why go into town?
I’m just trying to blend in with the environment, the crawling of the ants, the week-long unfolding of the giant green banana leaf, the cockeyed & cock-fighting roosters crowing around the clock, the wild, mating dog barks during the middle of the night, the brown soothing cow lolls. No sound of humans. Just the soft blowing of the ocean breeze while I try to merge with it all.
My friend, Stephen Sacks, posted something on my Facebook wall. Excuse me, my “time line”. (Yeah, damn, don’t you just hate to admitting you use that damn thing.) He said, “Savor time.” I said, “Cool, he misspelled it, he meant to write ‘Savor THE time.'” You know, as in “don’t take anything for granted, live in the moment, life is beautiful”, some riff like that?
Now I’ve been spending the last many days in one solitary place, yet the world seems to be opening up for me. And “time”, that thing Stephen posted about? Well, it seems more like “timeless”. Meaning that you must enjoy time passing, as it passes, each moment at a time. Not just a big chunk as in savor THE time. Like “when you’re young” or “when you get to that level of accomplishment”, or “when you’re retired”… which is sort of now, semi-retired… What’s the point, Alice?
The point is to live EVERY moment, enjoy every perception, appreciate/accept the good along with the bad. Shit, they all come together, particularly when you simplify your experience to living in the the moment. Life seems a lot easier. You know what I mean, Mr. Green Jeans?
So time. Yeah, time.
It’s getting dark here on the Black Sand Beach. Gotta walk home to my “bule” (Indonesian gringo) pad in the middle of the banana field.
Hasta….
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