Eat, Pray, Love

looked like witches’ hair, plus eye of what I believe might have been newt... all floating in its own brown juice. There was abo ...

to them which sexual positions are appropriate for which time of the month. She said that if a man wants to make a baby he shoul ...

Which made us all laugh because Ubud is full of these young guys, these “drivers,” who sit on every corner and harass passing to ...

101 On the ride home Felipe asked, “Has she bought a house yet?” “Not yet. But she says she’s looking.” “It’s been over a month ...

102 The end of July came, and my thirty-fifth birthday with it. Wayan threw a birthday party for me in her shop, quite unlike an ...

that Wayan was throwing me a Balinese birthday party, “it’s going to be so boring.. .”) It wasn’t boring, though—just quiet. And ...

dren of rice farmers, sat very still, tentatively staring at the floor, dressed in gold like miniature deities; they imbued the ...

103 Still, Wayan needs to buy a house, and I’m getting worried that it’s not happening. I don’t understand why it’s not happenin ...

legitimate, property is valued in the same way as the Masai value cattle or as my five-year-old niece values lip gloss: namely, ...

leave the country. Which is in about three weeks. But it’s turning out to be almost impossible for Wayan to find a piece of land ...

104 Maybe I’m not getting across how fun all this is. Truly, it’s so much odd and satisfying fun, trying to figure all this out. ...

ing my attendant knight. Felipe is the kind of man who desperately needs a woman in his life—but not so that he can be taken car ...

they seem to have surrendered completely and forever: ambition. Needless to say, there’s a lot of drinking. Of course, the preci ...

Why am I worrying about this, by the way? What have I not yet learned about the futility of worry? So after a while, I stopped t ...

105 I haven’t seen Ketut Liyer in so long. Between my involvement with Felipe and my struggle to secure a home for Wayan, my lon ...

“OK,” I promised. “You are good friend to me. Better than friend. You are like my daughter,” he said. (Not like Sharon.. .) “Whe ...

About forty guests were there already at the neighbor’s house when we arrived, and the family altar was heaped with offerings—pi ...

Everyone was blessed again and again with flower petals dipped in holy water. The whole family took turns passing the baby aroun ...

106 The deal fell through with Wayan. That property Felipe had found for her somehow didn’t happen. When I ask Wayan what went w ...

Then Wayan, whose eyes are not exactly meeting mine anymore, crochets a complicated story. She tells me that she visited a mysti ...