Eat, Pray, Love

they never so much as tap their feet or roll their eyes in exasperation. Extraordinary, too, is the way the children wait, leani ...

once went on a pilgrimage to Mount Agung, the biggest and most spiritually important volcano on Bali, but he said the energy was ...

82 As for Ketut’s wife, it takes me a while to align myself with her. Nyomo, as he calls her, is big and plump with a stiff-hip ...

porch property with my most passionate assurances that I would be careful with his grand- father’s wisdom. I rode into town to t ...

my arm and all the way down into my guts. Then she dropped my hand and limped away arth- ritically, saying not a single word, co ...

83 I have a new friend. His name is Yudhi, which is pronounced “You-Day.” He’s Indonesian, originally from Java. I got to know h ...

rants—living belowdecks, working twelve hours a day, one day off a month, cleaning. His fel- low workers were Filipinos and Indo ...

stayed their visas and were afraid that registering would get them deported. On the other hand, they were afraid to not register ...

next. Maybe his wife, Ann, will come and join him here. Then again—maybe not. What’s here for her? Their young marriage, conduct ...

84 “ketut, why is life all crazy like this?” I asked my medicine man the next day. He replied, “Bhuta ia, dewa ia.” “What does t ...

four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poet ...

must say, “I am Lagoh Prano.” Lagoh Prano means “Happy Body.” I rode my bicycle back home, pushing my happy body up the hills to ...

85 Although the next day (protective brothers notwithstanding) I did get hit by a bus. It was sort of a smallish bus, but nevert ...

86 Wayan Nuriyasih is, like Ketut Liyer, a Balinese healer. There are some differences between them, though. He’s elderly and ma ...

“No,” I lied. I don’t like lying, but I generally have found it’s easier not to mention divorce to the Balinese because they get ...

baby, my second child, the one in my belly.” After which incident their firstborn child, a bright little girl with the nickname ...

down to twentieth out of fifty children. In the middle of Wayan’s telling me this story, Tutti herself came charging into the sh ...

the tourists, a brassy older broad from Australia, was loudly asking if Wayan could please help cure her “godawful constipation. ...

87 Now my days are divided into natural thirds. I spend my mornings with Wayan at her shop, laughing and eating. I spend my afte ...

Recalling these teachings as I ride my bike so freely in the sunset through Bali, I keep making prayers that are really vows, pr ...