Take Off Your Shoes by Ben Feder

Author:Ben Feder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO026000 Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Radius Book Group

twelve |

I thought about what to pack for the bike trip to Java. The wet season in Bali had ended. The change was not abrupt, but I noticed fewer tropical downpours. Now quiet overcast skies gave way only to mild showers that lasted about an hour. I included some light raingear in my bag, just in case.

Before I set out, I sat next to Nava, who was reading on the couch, as she did most mornings before breakfast. “What was it I heard you saying to Oliver the other day about Green School?” I asked. I knew Oliver had asked her to tell him something she liked about Bali.

“No walls and no doors,” she said. “Everything is open. Like being in the wilderness. I take a deep breath so I can have fresh air even inside the classroom.”

I knew what she meant. Green School’s buildings were veritable cathedrals made of bamboo, soaring from the jungle floor. Even the nails that held the wood together were bamboo. Three large, connected spiral structures, with round roofs thatched in local alang-alang grass, formed the center of the campus. The natural world that was core to the school’s educational mission was literally all around and could be felt, seen, and heard.

I gave Nava a kiss on her forehead. “You know I’m going to Java for a few days, right?” She nodded, eager to get back to her book. “I’ll see you when I get back, okay?” She pecked me on the cheek and returned to her reading.

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