A Parting

In meditation this morning I thought, Okay that's enough. Gotta get moving. Then I experienced it as if I'd just said goodbye to some intimates whom I had been with visiting, as if I got a sense of them as a door closed and knew they understood that duty called and that we'd meet again. Still, we were a little sad. But it was time to go. 

Planet of the Humans

This documentary available on You Tube is not Michael Moore's. He's just backing it. It's completely the work of Jeff Gibbs. It's recieved a lot of criticism for being an attack on the green movement - some of the footage and information is outdated and so forth. So it's flawed and an update those parts would be good, but don't throw out the whole thing which is rather sobering and no surprise really. Big biz cashing in and creating more junk. I agree that the world has too many people who want too much. We don't want to change our lifestyles or reduce population and our solutions are not adequate so we're headed for disaster greater than than all the disasters that are happening. 

Good luck planet earth

Climate change: More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070

Soybeans

From a note written to Bill Shurtleff, founder of the Soy Info Center:

I think I mentioned you in a podcast where I talked for a bit about getting tempe and tofu from organic non GMO soybeans here and Miso made by Japanese expats. I could have told more about the soybeans, how Suharto sabotaged Indonesia's healthy local soybean market by making deals to buy and import the cheaper GMO from the US and Argentina. We shop sometimes at a little good food place called Satvika Bhoga run by a couple born in Jakarta of Pakistani Hindu parents. Really good people - Deepak and Hira. They had an arranged marriage long ago. We've been to their home with a grey water system and mini biofuel maker from compost to cook with. They buy Indonesian organic non GMO soybeans from some mountainous area in Java and will give seeds/beans - not sure what - to anyone who wants to grow it here and guarantees they'll buy the crop.

What explains Bali's low coronavirus cases?

from Al Jazeera

That's the image they use with the article and one can see that sometime but the photo below represents a more every-day scene.

Beach Closed Again

Darn - can't go to the beach now. Chris who owns Power of Now Yoga (pictured) which is on beachfront can get in to go to his place - and feed Angelique, their cow or whatever, says he thinks all the surfers coming over on this side from Cangu is the cause of it, or, maybe he added, it's just something the government can do to show their serious. He also owns the lovely Kolonial House a good three minute walk from home - with two excellent pools, one with salt water and the other with so little chlorine you can't tell it's there. He's got one of his yoga teachers and his girlfriend staying in back, a nice man from India, and Ingred from Java, the manager, is staying there. Usually he's full with yoga students or other guests but not now. So I can swim there anytime. I rarely swim in a pool, the ocean inside the reef is nice swimming and spacious as heck. So we were talking today and he thougtht the Pecalang would get tired of manning the various accesses to the beach and the rules would go back to being reasonable. It really doesn't make sense to the few of us who use it - it's like there will be only a handful of people every hundred yards when it's open. We'll see what happens. It's not so predicable here. 

Push Up Punishment

for not wearing a mask in Sanur - a post on Facebook Sanur Community