Leaving tonight

I am excited to be leaving for Bali tonight. I can't wait to see my loved ones and meet with new friends. Every visit so far has been blessed with new experience, new faces, and new ideas. I am looking forward to see what will unfold this time. While there, I will be co-leading a photo workshop with my husband during the festivals of Galungan and Kuningan, and creating new work for myself.

Eat, Pray, Love

I attended a reading and book-signing event by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, yesterday at Diesel bookstore in Malibu .
She was insightful and entertaining. Quite a few people asked her about Bali and the Balinese she mentioned in her book: Ketut Liyer, Wayan and Tutti. Apparently, they are doing much better now that they have been visited by many people who have read their stories. I have seen the hardship experienced by most Balinese since the bombings of 2002 and 2003, and I admire what Liz has directly and indirectly done for these people. She proved that we are all connected and can help in our own way.

Liz wrote a short note to Wayan and Tutti for me to pass a long. I am planning to deliver the note this coming Saturday and have some of Wayan's "multi-vitamin" lunch while I'm there. For those of you who don't know what I'm taking about, I hope you'll read the book and visit Bali to see them too.