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travelin' woman
Social Life!  The micro in the macro.
Yes, living "in town" means I walk everywhere and everything is an opportunity.

• literary evenings  (with mostly ex-pats) interviewing authors,readings and engaging conversation
• Theatre and music performances
• convivial times at restaurants with people from all over the world (lots of open seating, bonding over mixed fruit elixirs,Storm micro-brewery ale and great organic food
• Live music at JazzCafe..... with Dancing
• invitations........ to people's homes (balinese and ex-pat) 
• Working with Threads of Life and helping them create a new economic development start up business with natural dyes(www.threadsoflife.com).  

• AND PARTiES

Christmas day I spent at Janet deNeefe's home with about 20 other expats (although i was the only American).  The champagne flowed, the stories expounded, (lots of writers) the food was magnificent.  Janet is Lady Bountiful and opened her home with graciousness and warmth.  After four hours at a grand  banquet table (lovely sit down meal of no less than 12 dishes of curries,lawars, salads,vegetable stews and her famous bakery, "Honeymoon" breads, she announced that she had cars waiting for us downstairs to take us to "Indus" (another restaurant she owns overlooking the Campuan ridge and river) , for live music and dessert.  The party continued there for another 4 hours. During our time there, another monsoon deluge ensued , and watching the misty ridge appear, and the passion flower vines re-appear just added to the magic.
I feel lucky and grateful to be with "this" expat community of people.  They are established with great minds that they use..... literary........ and of course great FUN!
The invitation came from her on Thursday and i thought....perplexedly ....what can I possibly bring???? She has everything..... restaurants,cooking school,has lived in Ubud for over 25 years........ so I went on a wild goose chase trying to find "Banana Grams" (she is a word person, has 4 children) and so many irons in the fire..... It's a great way to relax!  No Luck!  Then i remembered I had seen a flower show and they had orchids...... it took me an hour to decide ( i drove the seller crazy) and then attempted to walk home with a 4-5 FOOT orchid.  
At the party, we were discussing the theme of the next Ubud Writer's Festival (which she founded and runs) and it will be "The Landscape Within".  I suggested Pema Chodron.  She had never heard of her. On Sunday I ran around looking for a book written by her; no luck; I lent her my copy of "Comfortable with Uncertainty".  Those of you  who are familiar with her know that along with being a spiritual teacher her writing is magnificent.
And she tours.
So we'll see.