Scene 1 

Visa on Arrival

Denpasar Airport, Bali, Indonesia

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(I see his nametag)

Bhakti! Kamu nama Bhakti!

*smiles* Devotion.

*smiles* Yeah.

I point to my tattoo.

Maha Shakti, I say.

Ohh. Great big Magic.

Yeah. Great big God.

*both smile*

Om.

Om.

Walk away and scene.

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Scene 2

On the telephone with Randy, the car insurance man

Mid day, sitting at the kitchen table 

Topanga Canyon, California

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What’s your email address?

mail as in mailbox not male female @ chloeparkhealing dot com

Healing like healing the Earth?

I was sweetly surprised by his response. I take the sweetest exhale. I wasn’t expecting to have such a moment over the telephone with the car insurance man. I love it when life surprises me.

Yeah, Randy. Exactly. Healing like healing the Earth.

I wonder to myself if he knows how much his simple and innocent question has affected me. We continue with our simultaneously amusing yet boring yet necessary dialogue and eventually hang up the phone.

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Oh I am so ever so deeply in love with the purity of humans.