Long-Term Happiness

Well there is something. . .

Just like me to say I'm going to not write and then write. But just wanted to let everyone know that President Obama is here today. Not here here as in Palembang here, but here as in Indonesia here. You probably all know that though. I just listened to his speech and it was good for me. It highlighted the good parts of Indonesia rather than the petty bad parts. Especially his talk about religious tolerance.

Yesterday in one of my classes we were talking about long-term happiness. This really great boy Michael, an Indonesian Catholic and a body builder, was talking about how in order to have long term happiness every man must embrace the MOTHERSIDE of his personality and all people mus be religious, no matter what religion you are.

Maybe it's me but I found this EXTREMELY evolved for a 17 year old boy. It made me very hopeful and brought me out of a terrible funk I was in because of the ever vexing "selfishton" (selfish+simpleton) known as "Cake Breath."

Thanks to Michael for his wisdom!

xo

Tuesday

TEMPEH SUCCESS

Hi all,

The tempeh was a success. Involved some special yeast and two days of waiting. I gave most of it to Ida but am going to try cooking some up tonight with green beans. The next batch I'm going to do solo. . .let's see.

On another note. . .I'm gonna take the rest of October (read: November) off from blogging unless something super exciting happens of course.

And also. . .the volcanoes aren't near Palembang. Indonesia is much longer than it seems. It seems like a small country from a distance but is actually really big. The volcanoes are erupting hundreds of miles away in one direction and the tsunamis are happening hundreds of miles away in another direction. So Palembang is safe. Maybe that's why ancient civilizations liked to build their cities here.

Anyway. . .I'm off. It's a lazy Sunday.

See you in December.

peace and love

xo

k

P.S.- Out of pure boredom I subscribed to a paranormal newsletter last night. www.moonslipper.com

I wonder what they'll have to say.