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Read more: 148. The middle of the middle148. The middle of the middle
There’s a particular kind of humility that comes from being assigned seat 28E. The middle. The mathematical centre of other people’s discomfort, for thirteen hours, from Los Angeles to Aotearoa. To my right: a woman whose body had simply outgrown the architecture around it (and the bones buried within it). Her flesh pressed warmly against…
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115. Thinking about the handbag.
Read more: 115. Thinking about the handbag.It’s downstairs right now. The handbag. By downstairs, I mean in Yves St Laurent. I’m in the Kris Lounge a floor above it, killing five hours at Changi Airport. Should I get it? I work hard. God I work hard. But I have big mortgages to show for all that hard work. So big. And…
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114. Regret and other useless emotions.
Read more: 114. Regret and other useless emotions.It seems to me that regret is the sugar of emotions. You know it’s bad for you, but you just keep going back for more. I always feel jealous of people who emphatically say they have none. Whether that means they’ve learned, recalibrated and moved on or they’re just really good at discarding…
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113. Settle Petal.
Read more: 113. Settle Petal.The slogan Flower Power blossomed in the 60s and the passive resistance of the Vietnam War. But here in Bali, Flower Power exerts a different influence. Wherever you look, they call me to task – and the task is to stop, to notice, to appreciate, to be grateful.
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112. Stumbling towards enlightenment.
Read more: 112. Stumbling towards enlightenment.Desa Seni has been taken over by white people, like 40 of them. I’m not being casually racist. Each of them is literally and compulsorily dressed head to toe in white. There’s a 30-day Kundalini Yoga training programme on at Desa Seni. Called by practitioners ‘the yoga of awareness’, it aims ‘to cultivate the creative…
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111. Bedtime stories
Read more: 111. Bedtime storiesSo very many little things make up what makes Desa Seni special, and I shall document them before I leave on Saturday. This is one: a little something for you to think about before bed each night, on my pillow with a flower.
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110. To be a DOGGESS.
Read more: 110. To be a DOGGESS.This morning I went for an early walk on the beach. It has to be early for a redhead or I’d come back crispy fried. The Bali dogs are a signature of any outing around here, but the beach dogs are something special. To watch a dog decide to hit the waves, cavort and swoon…
Secret Royalty On Tour 