Sarong tree
by Mike
If Mom asks for a picture of something, I have to deliver, right? The pictures here are from the tree we visited on this day.
Today we went to a different tree that also had checkered sarongs tied around it and a local guy said it was holy. “So we can’t climb it?” “Oh, of course you can.” As long as we weren’t menstruating. Not that I know how to say “menstruating” in Indonesian, it was written in English on a sign at the tree.
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“menstruasi”, according to google translator.
Thanks. I think that I have never seen a poem as lovely as a tree in a sarong.
I’m with you. They have a very special relationship with their surroundings here. An anthropologist named Clifford Geertz (who’s widely famous in anthro, but got his start in Indonesia) says that the Balinese are doing nothing less than living the terrestrial expression of their spirituality. (In other words, they are living their myths).
So that’s what they keep saying to us.