Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Back in Australia....

I've made some changes since my last blog. That's the nature of this world. Change, impermanence, transition. I am in Australia after a great 18months in Bali. Why? Well I needed to reconnect with things Australian for a while: the night sky, the beaches, the spring flowers, the wonderful libraries. And of course to see friends and family for longer than a brief visit.
Because Bali is so near to the equator you can't really see a lot of stars at night, although the beaches can be lovely they can't compare with the amazing beaches in Australia, the flowers too are more tropical generally and of course you don't get many varieties that are common in spring in Australia. Libraries are another thing that is missing in Bali to a large extent. There are few and they are limited. Bali doesn't have a reading culture so that most Balinese wouldn't read more than a newspaper and that would generally be men. There are exceptions of course but the general population do not read books.
Before I left Bali a newspaper in Australia decided to write a profile on me and when I arrived back it was published.
I have also started dating again. More of that in a later blog....