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Old Sep 11, 2015, 05:20 AM
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T's away for 3 weeks. I was just reading a book review and saw this. Fits nicely at this time........

Awumbuk
There is an emptiness after visitors depart. The walls echo. The space which felt so cramped while they were here suddenly seems weirdly large. Sometimes everything feels a bit pointless. The indigenous Baining people who live in the mountains of Papua New Guinea are so familiar with this experience that they name it awumbuk. They believe departing visitors shed a kind of heaviness when they leave, so as to travel lightly. This oppressive mist hovers for three days, leaving everyone feeling distracted and apathetic. To counter it, the Baining fill a bowl with water and leave it overnight to absorb the festering air. The next day, the family rise very early and ceremonially fling the water into the trees, whereupon ordinary life resumes.......
Thanks for this!
LonesomeTonight, PeeJay, ThingWithFeathers, unaluna

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Old Sep 11, 2015, 06:02 AM
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sounds good.
When I don't see him for 3 weeks or more, I start getting ready to jump out a window Hope you will be okay.
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Old Sep 11, 2015, 08:15 AM
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My T is away too. I miss her. I miss her when she isn't away as well.
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Old Sep 11, 2015, 08:29 AM
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Mine is away for almost a month
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Old Sep 11, 2015, 09:11 AM
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Mine is away for almost a month
Mine too. Yours seems to take lots of vacations, Suraya.

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