Hello! and sorry for the communication gap!!!

We had a day off yesterday so I took a boat trip to an Orangutan reserve on an island on the Rungan River nearby. We started off in a village on the river and ended up in Palangkaraya, the capitol of central Kalimantan. Later in the day I visited two nearby social projects that Subud is doing – YUM is the umbrella organization and their largest funder is the Australian gov’t’s aid program (similar to USAID in the US).

Here's some photos . . .

 

Big buckets of love,

Mom/Julia

 

 

Eason Performs at Aunt D's and Uncle Tom's

Tappin' his foot, flailin' and wailin'!!!!  Yay!

Fun in MI

Charles says, 'It isn't all work out here in Ann Arbor.'

Backyard: Ann Arbor

For Melanie, from Chaz

I miss you dearly

My heart is sad & lonely

I await your return quietly

The roses & the lilies

Sit quietly for you waiting

For you to bloom for you

When you arrive

In the morning

The delphiniums & hostas

Are ready to burst with flower

On the night of your return

On the night you are home

I know I haven't always been right

For you and I know life could have

Been different with some prince with

Lots of money and a big boat

Floating on the waves

I am back to working hard to make

That boat with me as the prince

But until then I sit alone tonight and

Do my best to remember the sound of

Your voice and remember the quirk

Of your smile and

Remember the last time I saw you

For Melanie, from Charles

Solstice at Cain's Lake

Eason says:  I want to swim 'way over there!

Canoeing, swimming, sunning . . .

Thank you, charles and Melanie

Solstice

Drink the light.

Arrived in Indonesia

Im catching up on emails on the plane with this handy dandy plug in and just sticking this in the outbox.(Got a lot done.) The food was the worst airplane food Ive ever eaten. But theres an empty seat next to me, except the guy in the aisle seat is constantly jumping up and down and jiggling the seat (he's on his way to the Philippines, probably to visit family).

Okay, now it's Wednesday, I've (over)slept. The plane from Singapore to Jakarta was empty. The taxi was around $32 to get here last night; a good time to arrive, sailed right through everything, customs, traffic, etc., Rochana wanted to talk all night...(that was okay). . .It's hot and humid. We'll have gado-gado for dinner made by the maid, she's been with Josephine for I understand a couple decades .  . .

Love,

Julia

Amir, Inela and Mak!

Fwd: from Sam & Sally

Dear John,

We're on the EuroStar, heading for London from Paris. 

And, believe it or not,we're actually in the tunnel

going under the English Channel! How weird is that?
All those shipwrecks! The idea of that much water

above  us is more than a bit strange.

Paris was nice enough. We're tired of traveling,

though, and we miss the quiet of Greece.

Too many people around us. Too much noise. We're

actually ready to be home--or back on Patmos.   

Tim: Just a View Out the Window

Tim's view from his hotel at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Convention last week in Boston.  He was a presenter on such topics as augmented reality and mobile publishing.

One of his successes -- Cell Journal's current issue features a special focus on "...PDFs with multimedia online by introducing 2D "Quick Response" barcodes. Scan a code with your smart phone . . ."


Their cover is a result of Tim's promotion of this technology . . .

Eliot Says: Running the River

 Eliot says:  A 3 day river trip on the Wynoochee with 7 guys (1 professional chef), lots of beers and a herd of 80ish elk was just what the doctor ordered!  Didn't get the memo on the proper hat to bring, but I still got "not bad" navigating the MANY rapids.