Maybe you’ve heard of the Navajo Indian concept of living your life fully in harmony with nature and the world around you. They call it “walking in beauty” and I can not think of a better nor more “beautiful” way to say exactly that. Through all of my travels and frequent moves, I have come to understand that happiness is derived much more through relationships and serenity than through physical possessions. (Not to mention how this makes those moves infinitely easier!) I believe it is important for us to find a balance, however. We can live ascetic, bare lives, but the fact is we, as humans, like pretty things and comfort. Don’t we?
I don’t mind living out of two suitcases (or three or four!) but I’ll admit that I would love to have a PSF in my life. (That’s a permanent storage facility – expat speak for a home of your own.) That’s why I was overcome with very non-harmonious feelings of envy when I spotted this fabulous Ubud jungle dream home in the NYTimes.
Do you believe in serendipity? Images of Bali have quite suddenly began to appear in my life more and more often. Blog posts, emails from friends, articles in newspapers and magazines…everywhere I turn I see pictures of gorgeous guest houses or reviews of literary festivals or rich travel stories. If the Navajo share the walking in beauty concept with anyone, it must be the Balinese. The colors, the flowers, the harmony with nature…although I haven’t yet been there it looks like an artist’s paradise. The flowers! It seems like there are flowers everywhere, is this true? Maybe it is time for a visit? I think I’m becoming enchanted, yet another common thread between the people of Bali and the people of New Mexico.
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You dont even have to leave China to do this,
visit Sanya, Hainan Island =
The Bali of China, All year round!!
Have Fun in China
ThirdEye