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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When we arrive, the
high priestess is about to begin her mid-day prayers, and graciously invites us
to meditate while we wait. Afterward she will do the water purification
ceremony for us. We sit and meditate with eyes open so we can see her
Hindu-Buddhist rituals -- holding a vajra, ringing a bell, flicking water and
flowers into the air, chanting for 30 or 40 minutes. We are entranced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She turns toward us
with a radiant smile, motions us over and explains: we will be completely wet with
water and afterward we will change into dry clothes. Of course, we didn't know,
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 10.0pt;">On my next visit, two
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many Balinese families are there also.</span></div>
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strongly, with motion, cries, and laughter releasing as the water pours over them. Ida
Resi gives instructions to help move the energy: stamp your feet,
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Alit’s own star language, the mother tongue we all share.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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but some still remember and offer water blessings to anyone who appears at her
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can enjoy my documentary "Sacred Waters of Bali" at</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/channels/maraalper" target="_blank">vimeo.com/channels/maraalper</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">From "A Little Book on Ida Resi Alit:" Ida Panditha
Mpu Budha Mahaseri Alit Parama Daksa, also known as Ida Resi Alit, was born I
Komang Widiantri on March 14, 1986, in a small farming village in the central
highlands of Bali. She lived as an ordinary girl for the first twenty years of
her life. At the age of 20, due to external events, she fell into a deep
depression. Ida Resi Alit’s uncle, a village Mangku, concerned for her well
being, introduced her to meditation and yoga to soothe her. As she started
practicing, the girl who had no previous spiritual training or deep desire,
began to have out of body experiences and download information during her
practice. She was instructed to perform a special ceremony, the meaning of
which she did not understand. At the ceremony she fell into deep
unconsciousness. She stopped breathing and her pulse was gone. Her family
wailed, crying and reacting hysterically, scared that she had died. Ida Resi
Alit has no memory of this time. At 2am she started to regain consciousness, to
be able to blink but not to talk. Then she saw a laser, like a bolt of
lightning in the sky, and found herself able to fully return to her body. She
slept until the afternoon and when she had awakened spiritually. She was able
to recite mantras she had never been taught. High priests were called in to
confirm this. Not only were the mantras valid, she knew many more that the
priests had not yet learned. Soon after she was ordained by the highest
authority, the Hindu Dharma Council, and she became Bali’s youngest and only
female High Priestess.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Another article about her:
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enjoy Mara Alper's documentary "Sacred Waters of Bali" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/channels/maraalper" target="_blank">vimeo.com/channels/maraalper</a></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We enter the beauty of Bali without a word, witness the
connection to water that transcends the practical. Water is sacred in Bali, not
taken for granted. It graces every offering and ceremony, purifies each prayer.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deep interconnections with each
other, nature and the gods are expressed in a cremation ceremony, water
purification ritual, new year water blessing for sacred statues and daily life.</span></div>
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Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-39033737126787590572015-07-25T18:28:00.000-04:002015-07-25T18:28:07.326-04:00"Sacred Waters of Bali" video coming soonMara Alper's documentary "Sacred Waters of Bali" will be available on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo.com</a> next week. Watch here for the link to view it.<br />
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This evocative short film shows Bali Hindu devotion to water in ceremonies for cremations, New Year's Melasti, Saraswati and water purification with High Priestess Ida Resi Alit. Beautiful images, music, sounds of water and nature draw the viewer into Balinese daily life and ceremonies.<br />
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me where I need to go. I may have an agenda but it interlaces with the
present moment, until the plan becomes secondary and the river takes me where I
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It begins: I
come downstairs from my room, ready to find a motor scooter ride for a late breakfast at Kakiang, the best bakery in Ubud. Agung,
the hotel manager, stops his work to chat with me, offers a ride with his wife Made
and off we go with three helmets for her, their son Nanda and me.<br />
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We take the long way round, uphills and down into the jungle
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My next ride is a short distance past the monkey forest to a bead
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They direct me up the block to a silver shop. The woman there is
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The stone store is well stocked. I sift through the amethyst bin
and find none like the small teardrop stone I lost. I browse the other bins and
find a green peridot, so perfectly cut that when I put it in the necklace to
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Today, Koni tells me how his destiny was shaped by
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in Sri Lanka for years when he was young, in search of this love story come
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It is still light when I leave -- 5:30 p.m. It is dark every
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My perfect day of ends back at home, eating the chicken with the
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Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-7515441207744681592015-04-17T13:43:00.000-04:002015-04-17T13:43:01.010-04:007th World Water Forum, Korea - Pt. 1What an intense and remarkable experience at this week-long event. It was truly international, with panels and presentations were from every continent-- except the coldest one. The stories that were strongest for me -- restoration of the the Upper Jordan River for Jordan, Israel and Palestine; ideas for the food-water-energy nexus; innovations in irrigation that use smart phones to control timing and flow of water.<br />
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OK, I have no photos to show yet because I'm posting from my iPod, so this doesn't have the "wow" effect of my usual posts but . . . Wow! I spent 5 days listening, talking, eating with 1000s of other people working for water. Very gratifying. And the range-- from indigenous rites and rights to the World Bank. A rare event.<br />
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Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-36275657214752393312015-03-30T23:27:00.000-04:002015-04-04T03:46:28.648-04:00To The Sea -- Water Purification for Balinese New YearIt's 5 a.m., still dark. We are all assembled at the village temple in Nyuh Kuning where I live. Hundreds of people in ceremonial clothes are busy loading trucks with sacred objects from the temple. The dark moon is a thin waning crescent, new moon approaching to mark the New Year. A gamelan orchestra plays music.<br />
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We reach Purnama Beach-- Full Moon Beach. The shrines and offerings are unloaded and we join the parade to the sea.<br />
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Thousands of people from other villages are already here. The ceremony
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An essential part of all Balinese ceremonies is waiting. We wait for priests to arrive, for their special mantras to be chanted, for our turn to accept the holy water and the blessings. While waiting, people do what they do . . .<br />
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After an hour or so, my village prays together, then marches to the sea where the priests gather water for blessings.<br />
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Everyone goes to the sea with offerings, shrines and protector figures.<br />
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We return -- a five hour journey all in all. I am honored to visit the sea for its blessing. This is what re-imagining water is all about for me, having a strong relationship with water, a deep connection. This is why I am here.<br />
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The next day is the parade of Ogoh-Ogoh from my last post. And the day after that is actually New Year's Day-- Nyepi -- the day of silence and introspection. The entire island is silent, with all families at home. The rules: no electricity, no fires for cooking, no talking, fasting. The devout follow it precisely, the rest . . . Even the international airport is closed - no flights in or out of Bali this one day of the year. Amazing. <br />
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A friend snuck out to shoot the empty Ubud street. I will shoot another on a normal day and post it to show you the contrast!<br />
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<br />Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-50264553646070246072015-03-23T02:44:00.003-04:002015-03-23T02:44:57.951-04:00Balinese New Year -- Nyepi -- Ogoh-Ogoh -- Water Ceremony Parade of Giant Monsters and Silent DayEach year the entire island of Bali celebrates New Year together on the new moon in March. This year Nyepi was March 20 - 21. For a month before, the young men in each village built the Ogoh-Ogoh monsters. Day by day, I watched them progress.<br />
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For weeks before preparations are made for the three day event, beginning with the ritual of going to the sea for the sacred objects from every village temple to be purified and blessed by the waters.<br />
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The parade of the giant monsters is the night before Nyepi, the Silent Day. Their job is to chase demons away from Bali so the New Year ahead will go well. Live gamelan music plays for each one -- the video at the end has a bit of it.<br />
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Magnificent creatures! Every village makes them, but the ones in Ubud are legendary as this is the cultural center of Bali, the town of artists.<br />
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When these giants pass by carried on bamboo platforms by dozens of men, we are all shoved back by the traditional Balinese police so we won't be trampled, especially when they spin around -- very exciting indeed. We all yell in fear and glee. <br />
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The next story -- To the sea for purification! I have waited years to see this. <br />
In my next post . . . <br />
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takes me places - otherwise known as a driver - about why people smile so
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I Made Adi Wahyudi's smile</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He tells me that behind the smile is
respect for everything -- people, nature, community and the gods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Respect for everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The day before he told me that from 11 years old through high
school they learn about the Six Enemies Within -- lust/desire, greed, anger, confusion, excess,</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> jealousy.</span> They learn to
recognize these difficult feelings and then let them go. "If we hold onto
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you feel them with someone in your family, what happens, I ask?
"We talk quietly about it and say 'I would appreciate it if you would not do
this.' Then we let it go."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"It's really important to control these enemies inside us so
we can feel peace, calm, comfortable and always have a good attitude to
everybody in this world. We have a good attitude by smiling. Not a fake smile,
but a real smile for everyone. From our hearts."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I met my first mangroves in Mexico. Snorkeling through them was enchanting, their roots
like watery arms. It was love at first sight for me. A few days ago I spent hours in
the Bali mangrove forest at the southern end of the island. They still enchant,
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They are dutiful guardians of sea and earth, cleansing the
waters, sheltering fish, protecting us from storm surges. Trees that can live
in saltwater tides, unique and beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But the story is more complex now. Their numbers are rapidly
declining at an alarming rate – 50% lost. We who treasure the sea, land and creatures want their interconnections acknowledged.</span><br />
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about the mangroves and build community support for mangrove clean up and well-being.
Change is slow, but persistent, like waves on rocks. </span><br />
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Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-87540119325919827712015-02-23T00:48:00.000-05:002015-03-12T10:59:57.400-04:00Ripples in a Cup<style>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I place a heavy ceramic bowl into the steel sink and it makes ripples in the cup filled with water, perfect concentric circles. I am
fascinated and do it again and again, enjoying the simple beauty, sensing the
ripples that echo through my body every time I dance. Every footfall ripples my
waters -- this is what heals me, cures me, why I dance, why so many dedicated dancers
gathered on the wood floor for the Sunday Dance.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">River under Monkey Forest banyan</td></tr>
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<br />Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-20601352545784573692015-02-20T02:26:00.001-05:002015-02-21T13:36:17.573-05:00Family Ceremonies<style>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Balinese like to invite us to their ceremonies. They are
proud, we are curious. I am honored each time. This time a young woman I meet
at a hotel while walking one morning hears of my interest in sacred water and
invites me to her family’s home. </span></div>
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ceremonies in progress – a cleansing of dark deities and demons for Kajon
Kliwon that happens every two weeks. We begin in the family temple, then go from room to room,
giving blessings and asking for protection, asking that the offerings be
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sacrificed with blessings while a bird sings freely in the tree above. I do not
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The black and white fabric represents the balance of good and evil – both part
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given me. In my search for a place to video the full moon rising, I end up at
the brand new 5 star hotel across from my humble abode—there goes the
neighborhood! Full moons are important for Balinese ceremonies, so I hope for some good images.</span></div>
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it is late, so I am invited to return the next day at 6. It is also the first day
their restaurant will be open and I have a long conversation with the Chef
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moonrise for a time lapse video, but since I am the first customer at this new restaurant, I am
honored with a complimentary sampler of Chef Ketut’s pick of appetizer, main
course and dessert that are truly heavenly. Knowing my food enthusiast friends
will enjoy it, here are photos of the mushroom ravioli, braised pork and
vegetables, banana spring roll with chocolate ice cream and raspberry chocolate
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visit was a quest. Several contacts who might lead me there fell through, yet I
was determined to find this high priestess who was dedicated to water so I
decided to set out with a driver and a friend to find her small village
Demulih, which the Balinese tell me means "not welcome"—well, here we
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finally arrived, not only were we welcome, our timing was auspicious, though
unplanned. The high priestess was about to begin her mid-day prayers, and
graciously invited us to meditate while we waited. Afterward she would do the
water purification ceremony for us. We sat where she indicated, slightly behind
her, and meditated with eyes open so we could see her Hindu-Buddhist rituals
holding a vajra, ringing a bell, flicking water and flowers into the air, chanting for 20-30-40
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toward us with a radiant smile, motioned us over and explained: we would be
completely wet with water and afterward we would change into dry clothes. Of
course, we didn't know, so brought none. When my turn came, I stepped up to the
high platform she sat on. Her young niece filled many water bowls. She asked
me to pray. I put my hands in front of my heart in the customary western way,
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me to wipe my head. I brushed the water through my wet hair many times, felt
tension release, yield to water, and raised my hands high above my head, receptive,
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10.0pt;">The next
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10.0pt;">Many people
responded strongly, with motion, cries, and laughter releasing as the water
cascaded. Ida Resi sometimes gave instructions to help move the energy: stamp
your feet, breathe deeply, pull the energy up into your heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10.0pt;">There we
were—Mexican, Belgian, Hungarian, Romanian, American, British and Balinese all
reveling in these moist moments, drinking in ineffable healing transmitted in
Ida Resi Alit’s own star language, the mother tongue we all shared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10.0pt;">Of all my
journeys in Bali, all the ceremonies that raised my spirit and awareness, these
water purification ceremonies are the ones that led me here because they affirm
the sacredness of water.</span></div>
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the reason we struggle and fight—because water <b>IS</b> sacred. Most of us have
forgotten, but some still remember and offer water blessings to whoever appears
at her door.</span>
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about healing water </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10.0pt;">to balance all
I’ve learned about water ills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mara </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">From "A Little Book on Ida Resi Alit:" Ida Panditha Mpu Budha Mahaseri Alit Parama Daksa, also known as Ida
Resi Alit, was born I Komang Widiantri on March 14, 1986, in a small
farming village in the central highlands of Bali. She lived as an
ordinary girl for the first twenty years of her life. At the age of 20,
due to external events, she fell into a deep depression. Ida Resi Alit’s
uncle, a village Mangku, concerned for her well being, introduced her to
meditation and yoga to soothe her. As she started practicing, the girl
who had no previous spiritual training or deep desire, began to have out
of body experiences and download information during her practice. She
was instructed to perform a special ceremony, the meaning of which she
did not understand. At the ceremony she fell into deep unconsciousness.
She stopped breathing and her pulse was gone. Her family wailed, crying
and reacting hysterically, scared that she had died. Ida Resi Alit has
no memory of this time. At 2am she started to regain consciousness, to
be able to blink but not to talk. Then she saw a laser, like a bolt of
lightning in the sky, and found herself able to fully return to her
body. She slept until the afternoon and when she had awakened
spiritually. She was able to recite mantras she had never been taught. High priests were called in to confirm this. Not only were the mantras valid, she knew many m<span style="font-size: xx-small;">o</span>re that the priests had not yet <span style="font-size: xx-small;">learned</span>. Soon after she was ordained by the highest authority, the
Hindu Dharma Council, and she became Bali’s youngest and only fem<span style="font-size: xx-small;">ale </span>High
Priestess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Another article about her: http://www.i-mag-online.com/2012/09/bali%E2%80%99s-high-priestess/ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In Bali, the devotion to making things beautiful moves me deeply—all
offered in gratitude to the gods for the good in life and to the demons to
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grateful for what we have, who we are, those we love. Bali reminds me that the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The complex, colorful, ceremonies fascinate me as they
proceed slowly over hours. I've been to more than ten different ones so far. As a witness, I am watchful, alert, fascinated. When
I put down my camera and participate, I chat, eat food offered to me, grow weary with everyone else until it is finally time to receive the
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the weeks I realize somewhere a priest is chanting mantras or people from a
distant village are slowly arriving for their part, or offerings are being
blessed with holy water and placed correctly at the temple, or a priest is
delayed and we wait for his arrival. They call it Bali time, rubber time.
Arrive at 5 p.m. and wait until 8, arrive at 9, wait till midnight. I slow down to the heat and beat.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bali's most sacred mountain, the volcano Gunung Agung on a clear morning.<br />Often it is invisible behind dense clouds</span></td></tr>
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Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-89271427124838056622013-01-31T20:20:00.003-05:002013-01-31T20:21:59.936-05:00Village Life<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After four days of incredible ceremonies at the royal temple around the full moon, I spent today at home all day, uploading the video to my
computer and beginning the daunting task of organizing and editing. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puri Saraswati entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saraswati in ceremony regalia</td></tr>
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and awkward body stances to get the best shot. It is often fatiguing, but
always a powerful, meditative in-the-moment experience. I am exhilarated and
exhausted afterwards. And after four days of ceremonies– I am in a state of
quietly euphoric altered consciousness. I treat myself to an acupressure
massage, and take it slow.</span>
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live, the main road one block over, and the village gathering space where people
make offerings together on some days, have quiet prayers on others. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The street where I live at Danu's Guest House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danu and his grandson Eka on our outing to Puri Ulan Danu</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ketut, Danu's gracious wife</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Their daughters Iluh and Luhde</td></tr>
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lo and behold—the local Green Earth anti-pollution activist showed up with
composting equipment for the villagers. </span>His name is Wayan and he worked with an American woman for
three years in trash removal. She taught him about global climate change, about
the toxic effects of burning plastic in the garbage—a common practice here—and
about composting. Not polluting the streams and rivers with plastic rubbish is
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composting bins. He and his friends made a colorful booklet explaining it all.
The villages pay for the composters and he delivers them and trains people
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am happy, healthy and holy -- enjoying most moments--
bliss plus reality. Bliss = all the ceremonies, the arts and culture, the
people. Reality = all the traffic with cars and many motorbikes with no
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I study Indonesian 3 days a week and it teaches us about the
culture -- the language is mainly in the present tense. Life is like that here.
The heat slows us down too – pelan-pelan- slowly, slowly. I learn patience here
in many ways. (For example, it has taken two days of the internet working/not working/working to post this blog!)</span></div>
Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-33338053747338440712013-01-23T21:49:00.000-05:002013-01-23T21:49:41.293-05:00Visit to a Balinese Healer, the Balian
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ride on the back of Danu's motorbike sidesaddle since I am in the ceremonial
sarong, long, tight, down to the ankles. The crescent moon is hazy in the humid
air. Bright stars glisten between the clouds. The wind is warm, perfect
temperature. We join the others waiting, sitting on the beautiful stone
platform with pillars wrapped in bright fabric, golden carvings on the doors
and windows, a faint recorded mantra repeating om namo shiva as the daughter of
the priest, a young woman wearing all white, gives water blessings to a few
people one at a time.</span></div>
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the healer, his daughter and son-in-law come out of the temple area, they are
casual, smiling, maybe joking. Everything is Bali rituals is formal with casualness
surrounding it it. They take their seats on the raised platform of the building
with the ornate gold carved doors and call family groups up one by one.</span></div>
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healer makes different motions and sounds for each person seeking healing.
Sometimes quick bursts of breath, sometimes, guttural sounds, always his hand
slowly circling toward the person, fingers moving in varied patterns, his eyes
closed, his hand sensing. His daughter assists with different hand motions,
burning incense. His son is in prayer pose or making varied mudras with his
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hands on knees, then talk with him quietly, receive water purification
blessings and something written on a piece of paper, perhaps a mantra, some
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women who get healings move a great deal. The first holds her arms out, shakes them,
and makes crying sounds, possessed, in trance, resisting the holy water by
turning her head away. The second has her hand held by the healer as he pulls
hard on certain fingers. She recoils away from it, crying out in pain. He keeps
pulling. Her son moves behind her, supporting her back and pushing her towards
the healer so she cannot back away. At the end of each healing, the women talk
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it is our turn. I go up with Danu and Ketut’s family, their 16-year-old son,
Danu’s mother and their oldest daughter, in her early 20s. Their son hurt his
leg a couple of weeks ago, needed stitches, couldn’t play badminton or go to
school for a few days. He has come to the healer a few times during the healing
process, as well as a doctor and masseuse. The healer tells him to sit up
straight in meditation position – the family laughs—seems a typical request for
a teenager- stop slouching! The healer waves his hand around him and quickly
smiles and is clearly saying positive, encouraging things to him. I can see it
is about the strength the boy has, his power, about letting his power rise up
in him. It all seems very encouraging, even without understanding a word of the
Balinese spoken, just reading the expressions and body language.</span></div>
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his older sister is sitting next to him and is slowly leaning over towards the
floor. She begins to cry, at first a soft weeping, then a louder cry. The
healer turns his attention toward her but he addresses all his remarks to the
son. Her cries get louder. She sits up and extends one arm, hitting her brother
with the broad side of her arm, not hard but heartfelt, crying out to him with
anger or frustration.</span></div>
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begin to make a story – she is jealous of the attention given him, the lavish
praise. She cries to turn some of the attention to her. As a female, she will
never get the respect that he gets and this is how it manifests. I feel great
pain at seeing these women showing such emotion and anguish while the males are
stoic, silent and praised. (When Danu explains what is really happening, it is
easy to see that this story is my own projection. Read on . . .)</span></div>
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healer puts his hand on her hand. His other hand stretches across to the back
of his daughter who is fervently listening to some inner voice and telling him
what she sees and senses. He repeats it back to the older daughter, the conduit
between the two. Slowly the daughter grows calmer, lays her head on her
brother’s knee. He is awkward, puts his hand on her back, then takes it away
and leans back on both hands.</span></div>
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she calms down, the healer talks to the family. The grandmother asks questions,
the mother comments. The healer makes eye contact with the son and begins to
compliment him again, makes eye contact with the father and talks, avoids eye contact
with the daughter until it is time for her to receive her water blessing.</span></div>
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the blessing is done, she smiles, makes some lighthearted remark, laughs. The
family makes some joke and laugh in good humor as we go down the steps from the
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feel interested in the channeling the healer does with his family assisting,
feel the energy of it. But I feel disturbed by the women’s anguish, so strong
and disquieting. I read into it the cultural burden of women being seen as
lesser than men. Less recognition, less respect, more need to weep and wail. It
is painful to witness. Yet on a daily basis, the women are sweet and gentle, exceedingly warm.
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Danu explains it to me the next day, I have interpreted the healer’s message
for his son very well. But his older daughter’s story is one I couldn’t guess,
except the first part of it. Her mother-in-law doesn’t want her to be a
teacher, but to stay home with her five-year-old son instead. The daughter
wants to continue teaching as she has for a few years. Apparently the
mother-in-law has used magic on her, giving her bad headaches and lower life
energy. She is seeing the healer to help overcome the bad magic. Danu has asked
his grandmother ancestor to tell him how to help his daughter, but she does not
answer him because he did not pray to her and respect her enough. But his son
has made prayers to her spirit every day in their family temple before he goes
to school. The family feels she has reincarnated in him, so she is willing to
talk to him about solving it. When the daughter hit her brother, it was her exhorting
him to pray to great-grandma so she can have peace.</span></div>
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spirits and invisible energies, I find it all plausible. Yes, a mother-in-law
can send bad energy and thoughts to a daughter-in-law, want her to do things
her way. Yes, that can effect the young woman’s health. Yes, the brother can be
spiritual and open to receiving guidance from wise ancestors. It is very
complex, and perhaps far fetched to some, but it makes sense to some of us.</span></div>
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Monday, I will come again with Danu and his son and daughter for meditation and
to receive a healing. The healer’s son-in-law speaks English, lived in
Australia for years, so I will speak through him. Not sure what I will ask for
or explain - perhaps about wanting to open to more patience and trust, since
those have been my inner themes for my meditation. Perhaps about wanting to
open to the healer within me more. Certainly about releasing tension stored in
my body. I’ll talk to Danu about it.</span></div>
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be sure. But the issues raised about women are difficult. Tomorrow, I plan to go
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Marahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569695709923460142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009192249233114982.post-67973960122050108682013-01-19T05:09:00.002-05:002013-01-19T05:15:48.613-05:00Saraswati Ceremony<style>
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goddess of art, music and education. It’s at the local elementary school here
in Pengosegan. Every school in Bali has a stature of this patron deity of
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inquire after him and as luck would have it, not only was he there, but he
remembered me from last year and explained that they were creating a Barong, a
fabulous animal creature<span> </span>dedicated to protecting good in the world and one of my favorites in the
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impressed that I know Chokwah as a friend and tells me he will be made King in
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and arrive just in time to see the creative team assess the movement of the
Barong’s hinged mouth, watch them all take photos of their stunning creation.
Chokwah gives me permission to climb the high temple steps to take photos, a
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because of the heat – pelan pelan, slowly slowly. After the photos, I sit with
Chokwah, chat a bit, but mostly listen to Balinese, watch the tweaking of the barong,
and sit still. He asks to see my camera and zips though the menu in a
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for everyone to eat, but I don’t realize this until he asks if I would like
some food. It is delicious, a bit spicy, but fine. Lunch with the king today --
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important three-day ceremony in his family temple Jan. 25 – 29, the time of the
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villagers from Tebenon bring it home. It is their first Barong, a momentous
occasion complete with water purifications given by the priests. Before the
village only had Rangda, the guardian of evil in the world. The villagers tell me the new Barong and Rangda are a gift from the king, an act of great generosity since they are extremely expensive. Well done Chokwah.</span></span></div>
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balance restored, the true Balinese belief—good and evil both exist. Neither
wipes out the other, only power struggles that end in balance. Such a different
worldview from our good guys-bad guys-good guys always win ethic. Many guardian
deity statutes and banyan trees are wrapped<span> </span><span>in black and white fabric the Balinese use
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smell of incense wakes me. It is part of the morning offering, so I know Danu’s
wife Ketut is about though I did not hear her over the sound of water cascading past on its way to rice fields. Roosters crow, birds and insects chirp;
the geckos are quiet after a long night of orations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Frogs
sang me to sleep, though my body rebelled at being asked to go to sleep at an
hour when it is broad daylight at home. Day turned night abruptly as the jet
engine’s hurled us across the Pacific from San Francisco.</span></span></div>
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I
woke at 4 a.m. resolved to lay in bed time dawn, sleeping in short bursts,
relieved at the daylight at 6 a.m. I’ll go for my morning walk now, then
breakfast at 8 served by Ketut on my lovely terrace surrounded by palms and
bamboo and birds with bright azure, brilliant yellow, trilling calls. Ketut and
her children will help teach me Indonesian and I will exchange English with
them. She will teach me how to weave palm leaves into small offering baskets
filled with flowers and rice to greet the gods each morning and evening. I am
here and can hardly believe it.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I walk
the small road behind Danu's and find rice fields and the villas that sprout
all over Bali, as the main crop becomes tourists instead of rice. Still, one
paddy is freshly filled with water and the ducks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are here to eat insects and fertilize the water with their
poop, creating good conditions for the small rice seedlings to be planted.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next, a
small spa that does an hour massage for $20 -- yes! Antidote to 30 hours
travel. Further along is a wood carver pounding out a lion from a huge piece of
wood, then a gallery with stunning wood carvings. I realize we are close to Mas
the wood carving village. Each village near Ubud has an art specialty -- wood
carving, painting (Ubud), jewelry (Celuk), shadow puppets (Sukawati). The
families in each one carry on their traditions in each generation. A carving of
Kuan Yin with a dragon (naga) is stunning. Much too large to carry home, but
breathtaking to behold. The artist says he can carve a smaller one and I order
it. Ready by the end of the month.</span></div>
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to take Bali home is irresistible. Each trip yields another beautiful piece for
my collection. They give deep pleasure and memories of this moist, mild morning
on the ridge among the rice.</span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><br />
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what it means to be in Bali. To stand and watch two black butterflies spin
their </span><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">flirting dance near the red
bird of paradise and lush green leaves. They pivot united by an invisible cord,
not losing sight, not losing center, within two feet of me, now one, now near
my face and I see how the Balinese Legong dancers choreograph their butterfly
dance, understand the inspiration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Hundreds
of cars and motor scooters race by us. Some look to see what I see. I am
still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have time. I am in no
time, now time. Their black wings mesmerize. Why walk on when this is right
before me?</span></span></div>
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<b>Water Everywhere?</b></div>
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<b>Ithaca, NY</b></div>
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<b>Water Reflections </b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former pond where peepers, wood frogs and cat tails lived-- East Hill, Town of Ithaca</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On
my morning walks, I stop by the marshy swamp behind my house and watch for
frogs or skeeters in the summer, the sky through cattails in winter. Today it
is filled in with grass and dried leaves. The cattails are dead. Where have the
frogs hopped? I have no idea.</span>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
pond uphill where I enjoy hearing peepers in spring is completely dry. The
reeds are brown. Grass is beginning to grow in the center. I can walk across
the whole thing on dry land. My friend’s spring-fed pond is always full, except
in August. It has been down at least 3 feet all summer and autumn.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former marsh now dried up and filling in with grass--East Hill, Town of Ithaca</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Despite
the heavy rains in fall and the storm rains we had from Sandy, our plentiful
water has disappeared. We hope it is only temporary. NASA maps of underground
water show very low supplies throughout the entire state and region. This is
clearly not good.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
have always had the relaxed luxury of abundant water, of being a northern
rainforest. We think of water conservation as something for California,
Arizona, Nevada, not us. Take a look at your own nearby waters and see what you
think. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>True,
we may have a very wet winter full of snow and precipitation. We surely
couldn’t have a drought two years in a row, winter and summer, we think. But no
one knows. The weather was always hard to predict; now it is even harder.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last
fall, the Town of Ithaca Conservation Board newsletter talked about water
conservation to save on electricity. Why? Because water flows downhill easily to
the Bolton Point Municipal Water Treatment Facility, but it must be pumped back
uphill to all our homes and businesses at a cost of $500,000 a year -- half a
million dollars to deliver water to our faucets, the largest cost in the Town
budget.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s
time for us to start thinking of ways to turn on the faucets less. “Where there
are faucets, there is wasted water,” has been my motto for a while. It doesn’t
have to run continuously when we brush our teeth, wash our hands and face or dishes.
We don’t have to take long showers using 100s of gallons of water. Americans use
an average of 1,000 gallons of water a week per person compared to about half that
for Europeans. Each toilet flushes alone is about 6 gallons.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes,
water does recycle itself back into the clouds, but if it doesn’t rain or snow,
it takes longer to return, sometimes as long as a hundred years. So down the
drain and back into the faucet is far from an instant circle. And then there is
the electricity cost to consider. </div>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our
water billing costs are about to increase. This is a good time to start to
think about your own water habits—you and the faucet. If you’re curious, you
can take a short, fun look how much water you use a week at <a href="http://h2oconserve.org/">h2oconserve.org</a> –
good for all ages, with colorful cartoons.</span>
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