Brown Motion

To breakdown the island into numbers seems anti romantic but sometimes it helps to get your arms around it - how romantic. So some you might and some you might not - know - It is one of hundreds of islands that make the Indonesian Republic 8 degrees below the equator It is about 2,220 sq miles which is half that of the Big Island of Hawaii (which if you drive it is a round trip of under five hours) - not so in Bali - one point to another can take a day (roads are narrow and congested) It houses close to 5M people most of which clutter around the eastern part since the western thirds is a national park  Housing and constructed buildings tend to be shorter than the tallest temple in town so nothing over five stories was visible for miles making for tightly packed homes that house more than one family in the compound.   Typically Balinese families stay as joint families.   They have a family temple right on the edge of their home and visible from the road. Th...

Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become graduates . The procedures and traditions surrounding academic graduation ceremonies differ around the world. Whereas in most countries a graduation usually only occurs at university level, in the United States graduations often occur at high schools where no higher education qualifications are conferred upon the graduates . In a graduation ceremony the students dress up in special graduation caps and clothing that are made just for this purpose. So it was last week where all across America students graduated from kindergarten all the way to college.  As with word usage and ceremony the local culture plays a key role in what defines a term.  America is well known for capitalizing on any idea and milking it even if it is a bull (pun intended). Take graduation for example. I literally saw small children the size of a gnome holding ...