What I see

I see flowers everyday and everywhere,
not as often, I see people holding hands, which is lovely.
I see this flower open in the morning. It stands by our doorstep saying: 'Selamat Pagi!!'.
I see Teddy on our doorstep keeping us company and in the background our clothes hanging.
I step down the two steps by our front door, walk down the little path and I see children playing and laughing. I so love listening to them laughing.
I see my children growing and enjoying our after dinner ritual: sitting by our doorstep we watch the white birds flying back home and I try to answer a million questions of a curious mind.
Sometimes I see a butterfly taking refuge inside while the sun dries the outside.
I see funny things like Teddy jumping to the chair where I was sitting breastfeeding Lu.
I see the rain falling on the lotus leaves.
I see dragonflies and I inevitably think of two friends of mine that call themselves "libelulas", which means dragonflies in Portuguese.
From my doorstep I can see the door to the sewing workshop of Nancy, our dear landlady. By the door I see one of her paintings, she is an artist.
I see more flowers. These are Plumeria, frangipani is the common name. We see men and women with bits of this flower over the hear, usually after prayers. Kemboja in bahasa Indonesia.
I see Ibu, Nancy's cat, taking a nap by our bathroom. Ibu means mother and it's the name you call a lady in sign of respect.
I see Li and Lu playing before going to bed. We do want to use up the energy and then go to sleep quietly.
I see a little shrine where we can make offerings to the spirits, to all of them. We want them all satisfied.
I see the roof of my landlady's house from our veranda... the sun is setting and the night is settling in bringing with it all the night bugs noises.

Selamat tidur!