GLOBAL SEARCH FOR LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

GLOBAL SEARCH FOR LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Here is some hopeful inspiration to all the single mama's out there. Traveling is possible, magical earthly adventures are out there and lessons from a variety of cultures will bring wisdom to this family from the west. I want to rest from the feeling of isolation that I am sure many overworked mothers in western culture would feel, where community and local knowledge is losing value. I want to show images of beautiful families over the world, and feel awake again with the need for us to survive and harmonise with nature. Pictures will consume most of this blog, and the rainbow trail will be sought. Just us our family in and of the world... First stop Indonesia.

Rainbow adventure...

Rainbow adventure...
its all about the rainbow...

Monday, 9 January 2012

A sad goodbye filled with love…

The travel gods beckoned a day early yet it was time to go. They had a cleansing ceremony on this day with the locals making over 1000 offerings to go under every coconut tree in the area. This is to signify the blessings of the tree and pray for a good year. They also had a cleansing part of the ceremony where all the year gone was washed out to sea and the New Year brought in. Saying goodbye is a tricky thing. I find it hard to crack that emotional point where you are about to cry. Once I did I found it hard to stop. I have so much love for many people there and I think Mallee feels it to.  Mallee gave every one a cuddle goodbye and a wave. He called so many people PAPA and MEH MEH (MAMA) it was his family and I will never forget that. I hope to return with Mallee someday and share in the beauty of Nusa Penida. Mallee fell in a puddle just as we were about to leave and he threw up everywhere on the boat trip home. I arrived back to Sanur covered in vomit and saturated. But nothing could damper the good feeling that I have from the family in Nusa Penida I still feel it now and will always feel like my heart has grown bigger.

Mallee and Bom Bom who he called Bum Bum. We missed his performance for the ceromoney but apparently last year he put a fwe people in a trance includung kids.

The Warung goodbye







Wyan Mallee liked to listen to him sing.


OK so this the shot I took after the huge swell when I could finally move, right before Mallee had his first throw up. One girl was screaming others put on their life jackets and some were ye harring like cowboys. I just sat and gripped onto Mallee at one point the boat was nearly vertical!