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In the weird Bali dog world, one thing just leads to another………

11/4/2019

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Put more than one species in a space close enough for contact and the propensity for war is most certainly more likely than not.  Put in species of different origin and the likelihood for animosity escalates exponentially.

​Humans are from species same but when you examine us closely our sameness from a cultural viewpoint difference places us at a high level of conflict.  It puts harmony at risk and our inability to see through other eyes continues to endanger us and everything else.

Setting up ‘home’ with Bali dogs and with Bali people in a traditional village is complete and utter insanity, of course.  The propensity for conflict as species and cultural difference(s) meet and converge, intersect and inevitably diverge, is at a premium explosive level, of course.

A lot of deep breathing and a load of compromise can get things started.  Having Bali dogs in common can help yet can also be an immovable barrier and a powder keg emotional argument starter.  Foreigner culture is stereotypically regarded as being loud and emotional, prone to losing face.  Balinese behaviour regarded as reserved and reluctant to show extremes of emotion, all about face.

So, it all begins with the walk.  Walking with Bali dogs is a unique experience, semi feral free roaming dogs don’t generally take to collar and leash attachment and being led, anywhere.  Add humans from vastly different cultures and you have a recipe for disaster, humour and/or success, dependent on physical and emotional handling.

Dogs are very talented at bringing humans together and as crazy as it sounds Bali dogs can be the cultural bridge that invites different cultures to meet in the middle and embrace each other’s weird ways.

After a few years, which of course in dog time is dog only knows how long, things just lead on from where they originally began.  Dogs have a gift to offer us about the simplicity of isness, about just being.  About just here and now. 

Allowing one thing to simply lead to another in the weird Bali dog world enables the human actors to learn something invaluable about getting on and along with each and all else.

It’s the human world that’s weird.  Its a world where we tend to make everything more difficult than it needs to be or is. 

In the Bali dog world when you allow one thing to lead to another and another, present time and simple now is really all there is. 

Getting on and along, is simply all that matters.

​It just is.
 
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