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  • Balinese rice terraces on a volcanic hillside at dawn, with a small canang sari offering resting on a stone ledge beside an irrigation channelJourneys

    The Daily Work of Keeping the World in Balance

    Bali is often described as a place of extraordinary beauty. What is less often said is that the beauty is maintained deliberately, daily, by millions of...

    6 min read
  • A sandalwood stick on a wet grinding stone with a curl of fresh paste, soft morning light, and a thread of incense smoke rising in still air.Journeys

    The Scent of Staying Still

    Some things are worth doing slowly. Grinding sandalwood on stone is one of them, not because the result demands it, but because the doing is the...

    5 min read
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