Comments on: Souls Growing Skywards with the Trees https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/ Postcards from the Edge Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:41:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: MummyT https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/#comment-12524 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:07:02 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=2439#comment-12524 In reply to Snap.

Hello all! We are fine and dandy. Just, I was told there was internet in the Togeans, and, lo and behold, there was only mobile reception if you stood in one guy’s bedroom at a certain time of the evening and they had the splitter on…

With the result that there was a very sudden silence.

Togeans were wonderful, btw, but I think Derawan is better…

]]> By: Snap https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/#comment-12523 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:49:16 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=2439#comment-12523 Ditto to Nicole’s comment. Hope all is well and you’re just having way too much fun to worry about a blog?

Oh…and great post, really interesting and unusual.

]]> By: nicole curry https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/#comment-12522 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:09:04 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=2439#comment-12522 Hi, haven’t seen a post from you in awhile…everything okay?

]]> By: nicole curry https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/#comment-12521 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:07:19 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=2439#comment-12521 Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it:)

Are you planning to hit Kelimutu in Flores?

]]> By: scotttraveler https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/#comment-12520 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:25:57 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=2439#comment-12520 Wonderful story. It never amazes me, to what end people will expend energy and resources in the name of religion. I’m in Afghanistan now and folks pray 5 times daily, each prayer taking about a 1/2 hour. I think, “What I could do with an extra 2 1/2 hours each day,” to which a colleague replied, “And think of what the Talliban could do with an extra 2 1/2 hours each day.” I thought about it and said, “Good point.”

]]> By: Tracy Burns https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/#comment-12519 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:48:44 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=2439#comment-12519 What beautiful beliefs. The symbolism of infants growing towards the sky as the tree grows is lovely, so different and yet so similar to the common western custom that you pointed out of planting a tree in the memory of someone lost. Placing infants in the trees sounds like such a quiet, peaceful practice – such a stark contrast to the funeral and sacrifices you told of the other day. Do you know if its something a mother or family does alone? Or does the whole village take part?

Beautifully told, thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Helen https://www.escapeartistes.com/2010/09/05/souls-growing-skywards-with-the-trees/#comment-12518 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:38:14 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=2439#comment-12518 Wierder and wierder.

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